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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-08
THE WATER CONNECTION s.

GERHARD BONN, one of st. Pauls
heaviest manufacturers, speaks of the
Great Northern's Pacific ocean and
Great Lakes traffic. The road has line
of steamers plying the Great Lakes from
the head of Superior to Buffalo, and has
a line of ocean steamers operating be-
tween Puget sound and Asia. Mr.. HILL
expects to soon have lake boats which
will make the distance to Buffalo in
fifty hours. By this means freight will
be conveyed in about half the time re-
quired by railways, and at rates hardly
a fifteenth part as great. 1t is the eX-
pectation that within few years these
boats will ply regularly between the At
lantic ocean and the head of Superior.
When that time comes Mr.. HILL will
have continuous line from the Atlantic
ocean to Asia-about halfway around
the world.
The great bulk of the Eastern manu-
Tactures are brought to the wholesalers
of ST. Paul by the lakes. The teas of
China and Japan come to st. Paul di-
rect from the producers of those coun-
tries. Ten years they have been coming
that way over the Northern Pacific; but
now we have the advantage of an adj
ditional route for them.
Mr.. BONN refers to the fact that the
Great Northern was built without ex-
travagance. No railroad in the world
was built more economically. AS the
majority of its stock is and probably
always will be held in St. Paul, the line
will never DO toyed with by the bulls
and bears OF Wall street. #
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-08
OUR GREAT FACILITIES.

RUDOLPH RoSsUM speaks especially
forded st. Paul by the railways, par
ticularly' the Great Northern. There
are many details to shipping arrange
ments which seem small. but which
give great prestige to the wholesale city
that has not left them out of its facili-
ties. Promptness in filling and for
warding orders has come to be most
important feature In the jobblng bust
ness. By it the retail merchants of the
tributary territories are enabled to run
with light stocks of goods; they can do
business with smaller outlay OF cap
] ital, and a better one, because they are
constantly supplying with fresh wares.
The shorter the notice on which re-
taller eau receive consignments. the
less liable he is to fail; for if he is
good and active manager and has good
trade he will carry little or no dead
stock, and will turn all his capital over
rapidly.
Mr. RossUM is supported by all our
wholesalers in the assertion that st.
Paul outstrips every Western city, in
Guiding Chicago, in the matter of get
ting its consignments to the retail mer-
chants of the country. MIR. RossUM
says: "If we have an order we go at it
with vim and energy which is charac-
teristic OF the Northwest, and get it out
at once. We consider prompt
ness of prime value in our business,
which has Increased during the past ten
years at an average of 900 per year"
He speaks of the admirable arrange
ments Mr.. HILL has made at the head Of
the lakes. whereby the heavy freights
from the Atlantic are transhipped for
st. Paul with marvellous promptness.
Mr.. HILL seems to have overlooked
nothing at any point which can facili-
tate the wholesale and industrial inter-
ests of st. Paul. He has planted his
freight houses in the very heart of the
wholesale district. and arranged them so
that they can be reached by truckmen
without crossing railway tracks. He
has supplied them with hosting der
ricks and every convenience for load
ing and unloading heavy goods with
rapiditY. And his traffic managers make
such admirable train arrangements that
freight is conveyed to its destination
without delay.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-08

should build the great city of the West.
Weed out the pessimists from among
you" This is not idle fiattery, but the
remarks of railway magnate who is
extending his line to various of Mime
sota's prominent cities. some one or
more of which would receive like COM
ments from him, If he were disposed to
flatter. He has spoken his candid
views, and they form lesson which
should serve to inspire every citizen TO
renewed confidence aud effort.
We have still some things to overcome
in the matter of railways. One or two
lines which have headquarters in Chi
cago are still discriminating in favor of
that city; but with the right effort put
forth here, the time will soon come when.
no line can afford to do SO. In much of
the territory traversed by the discrim-
mating lines, st. Paul is more than
holding her own with Chicago; but she,
does so by getting her orders to their
destination much more expedltiousiy
than goods can be had from Chicago. @
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-08

borrowed from ancient Rome. who made
herself the naughty mistress of the
world by sending forth her armies and
conquering nations and laying them
under tribute to her. But the modern
conqueror sends forth men armed with
shovels and picks only, and builds into
other territories his roads and lays them
with rails of steel. The iron horse takes
the place of the cavalry; artisans and
tradesmen and husbandmen take the
place of infantry; the conquests OF
peace replace those of war; productive
ness supersedes waste. We lay states
under tribute to us now, as then; but 1T
is the tribute which comes from giving,
as we'll as receiving; from the ex-
changes of the products of labor. Our
generals are generals of trade and OF
finance, instead of conquest and battles;
our kings reign over systems OF trunk
lines, not armies and fleets. They re-
joiced and honored their generals when
they returned laden with spoils and
the tribute of conquered nations; we
rejoice and do honor to the men who
open up to our industries new channels
of trade and commerce. 1t is we'll to
raise the Roman arches of triumph to
mark and emphasize the difference of
the two civilizations.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-08
TRAFFIC RATES.

P. S. MACGowAN is the general man
ager of the Wood Harvester works in
st. Paul. which will soon give employ
ment to $500 laborers. He has had
many years of experience at the original
works of the company in the East,
hence what he has to say about the rail-
roads and rates is worthy of great
weight. He says: ''If line be drawn
fromSault Ste. Marie southwest through
Kansas City. it is safe to say that all
points west and north of that line can
be reached from st. Paul at lower
reIght rates than from Chicago. and
thus st. Paul is placed at an ad-
vantage as regards trade with all
these points. Water communication
must not be overlooked In the consider
alton of freight rates" He says that
last year he shipped large numbers Of
binders by steamer from st. Paul to st.
Louis and points between, and he eX-
poets to utilize this mode of communi-
cation both north and south in the fut-
ure. Every new mile Of railway laid from
st. Paul in the great agricultural dis
tricts west and south of the city adds to
our manufacturing enterprises, Is what
he says. He says furthersthat he is this
year shipping binders to Texas and
Washington, and to all the states and
territories between these extreme
points. in fact, throughout all the states
and territories west of line drawn
north and south through Ohio from
Canada to the gulf, and that all that
confrouts him now is the question of
ability to manufacture enough machines
to satisfy the demands already made
upon him.
Mr.. MACGowAN believes that if we
could have reciprocity with Canada our
railroads would experience great in
crease in their traffic, and that st. Paul
would be the distributing point for the
great Canadian Northwest.
Tie great manufacturer has written
so Complementary that there is little
left to discuss editorially. Every one
should read his remarks.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-08
THE RAILWAY INFLUENCE.

: a. FL. LINDEKE asserts that the new
railways, particularly the Great North
ern, had a great deal to do in bringing
the great manufacturing concerns which
established in st. Paul during the past
year. This is unquestionably true. The
wheat country which is opened by tn e.
Great Northern isvast enough to almost
support the great plants of the Wood
Harvester works and the cordage works.
The new country is SO very rich with
minerals and fertile for agriculture that
it will be question of very few years
when many millions of new people will
occnpy it.
The great manufacturers of the CO UNI
try agree that st. Paul is the most de-
sirabie point for industries in the North
west, for the reason that it is a great
railway center, and so situated that the
best of Side-track facilities can be had.
The factories mere procure their coal at
$3.50 ton, we arr close to inexhaustible
forests OF the best qualities oi hard
wood for manufacturing purposes, close
to great forests Of liamIock, close to the
greatest iron AMI coDpef iii.:les in ill.,,
warid ana AL tAes. ar, elSily and
c..eaply oJi;ii ri Il Is only Il question
OF few years when the nDsr y. .he vast
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-08
THE RETAILERS GAIN.

T. G. WALTHER directs attention to
the gain of the retailer west of us by
buying here instead OF at Chicago. The
Helena, Mont, merchant can get his
goods from St. Paul in three and half
days from the time he orders them,
while he cannot get them within six
and half days from Chicago. This is
an advantage which has already told its
story, for Chicago is shut out of this
trade. The retailers west. and even
quite distance east of US, buy alto
gether in st. Paul. The majority of
them make daily orders. ard many of
them pay cash. and gain in margins.
They turn their money over so rapidly,
and buy in sucn small quantities that
they can we'll afford to pay cash. A
capital Of $4,000 earns them more than
double what it did under the old heavy
stocking system. The retail merchants
in our territory all say that theiI orders
are more promptly attended to In st.
Paul than any other city.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-08
nIyERGING LINES

A. j. POWERS has treated we'll the
topic of the diverging lines of railway
leading to and from st. Paul which have
sprung up in the past twenty years.
Twenty years ago the wholesalers of
the city had only the ST. Paul q Sioux
City road with which to reach their far
away custom. Chicago practically shut
us out of the southern and southwest
ern districts, and held the lions share
of the trade throughout Minnesota and
the country west. Its superior means of
obtaining manufactures from the East
enabled its wholesalers to sell at fig
ures ruinous to st. Paul. The few
always here found it to their adyan-
tage to discriminate in favor of Chicago,
and for while our jobbers struggled
along near the edge OF bankruptcy. At
length Mr.. HILL and other brainy ST.
Paul men interested capital from other
countries and parts of America in
building railways from st. Paul, and
today the map of the st. Paul roads re-
sembles the spokes of wagon wheel;
they lead in every direction. Our
wholesalers have now trade IN Iowa
hardly second to Chicago's. They have
practically shut the Chicago men out of
the Dakotas, Montana, North Wyoming
and Idaho, and hold Minnesota with
only such competition as few other
cities of the state afford.
The remarks of Mr.. SHAUGHNEssEY.
vice president of the Canadian Pacific,
which Mr.. POWERS has quoted. should
be committed to memory by every citi-
zen. The Canadian Pacific will be COM
pleted to st. Paul Aug. l. and The high
official says Of our city: IF st. Paul
people Will stand as one man for st.
Paul, as against Chicago, or any etfer
city, and will place their money in st.
Paul and stand Loyalty by the st. Paul
merchants, then their future is assured.
Your business property is the cheapest
AMI best on the American continent,
and, conceding the advantages OF your
Location aud tributary territory, you
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-08
THE BUILDING oFARA1LRoAD

LoNGFELLow has sung for us the
building and the launching of the ship.
but the poet is yet to come with his epic
of the building of the railroad. There
is much in it to stir the spirit of song
in the rush Of the flying train, the roar
of its rolling wheels, the shrek of its
warning whistle, the glare of its cyclop-
can eye in the night, the trembling of
the earth under its ponderous tread.
There are the elements of tragedy in
the struggles of its hopeful and ambi-
tiOuS promoters and the wreck of their
hopes, and there are the p@ans of JOY for
their ultimate success. Phases OF it
have been interviewer in story and the
drama, but oftenest the tale is told in the
prOSy records of the courts, telling of
foreclosures and sales, and in the lacon-
les of the street, which tell how the
stocks went down under the claws of
the bears, turning wealth into poverty
and hope iuto despair.
Today the GLOBE tells in sober prose
the story of the building of the great
line whose completion to the waters of
the Pacific the city commentaries. And
what story it Is. What magnificent
tribute it is to the audacity, the cour-
age, the persistent pluck. the indomi.
table will of man. Go back only thirty
six years, when st. Paul had less than
Thousand people, when beyond us,
stretching to the Rockies, was an unin-
habited stretch of prairie and forest,
and beyond them range after range of
inaccessible mountains, over which only
the hardy hunter and explorer had trod,
and conceive If you can the faith in
themselves and the future which pos
SesSed those few men who conceived of
driving railroad across those prairies
and over those mountains to the coast.
They were great men who conceived it,
having the soul of prophecy; they were
brave men who undertook it and gave
to the enterprise their energy and their
fortunes.
There is pathos in the story of their
struggles; their contests for charters
and grants from legislatures; their
pleading with wealth for means; their
offering as securities only the promises
of the future; their delays. deferred
hopes making sick their hearts; their
failures and their successes. 1t is a
story that every American boy can read
and gather from it fresh inspiration TO
carry dauntless heart and an untirlng
enterprise into the struggle which lies
before him. There is cheer in it for
every man who is faltering under the
pressure Of obstacles which threaten
to bring his efforts to naught "when
every muscles strained"
The arches which span our streets are
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-08
A GLIMPSE OF THE PAST.

S. B. FooT gives us pleasing glimpse
of the times in 1861. Such reminis-
cences afford us means of estimating
what the marvellous growth since then
means. He rode mule from Red Wing
to Walla Walla. and found spots here
and there on the way which he thought
so admirably located that they would
grow into large cities could they have
the advantages OF railways; but he
looked upon the great mountains sur
rounding them as insurmountable bar
riers, and believed they were doomed to
be forever lost in the wilderness. He
has looked upon the transformation
with wonder, almost mingled with
doubt as to whether it were reality.
But dozen years ago he caught the
signs of the times and cast his lot in st.
Paul, where he is now prosperous
wholesaler.
The Great Northern railway has made
a city out of one of the spots he discov-
cred in the wilderness, and Mr.. FooT
may ride to it now in less number OF
days than 1t took him months to reach
it thirty-two years ago.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-08

city of the West. There is every reason
to believe that Mr.. GORDON has made
no mistake in this prediction. The old
stock has been endowed with so much
foresight and eminent ability, and put
forth such unyielding efforts in behalf
of st. Paul, that it could not we'll be
otherwise. The young men have grown
from their babyhOod under such an
unceasmg fire of enthusiasm that their
aspirations are even greater than those
of their fathers. They will carry on the
great work their fathers began, and in
fuse the spirit of progress into their
own children. Many of the men who
have borne the brunt of making the
city great have sons who are already
engaged in successful and great enter
priSes.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-08
P. z. LYONS,
Local Forecast Official.
il. HILLS CHARITIES.

For all his marvellous ability to carry
through great enterprises and accumu-
late millions of money, and for all his
resolute and almost stern countenance,
there is soft side to j. j. HILL. He is
one of the most charitable men in Amer
lea. He is, to great extent, philan-
thropiSt. Some two or three years ago
Manchester college, Presbyterian in
stitutiOn III the Midway district, was so
seriously involved that it came near go
ing out of existence. Mr.. HILL, who is
not a Presbyterian. heard of it, and at
once donated $4,000 in cash to the in
Btitution. This was sufficient to place
the college on its feet.
After that he made cash contribution
of 100000 to the Catholic church to
found college in the Midway district.
This college is building in Groveland
Park, overlooking the river at point
nearly 100 feet above the water-one of
the most picturesque and beautiful spots
to be seen i'll any city.
When the citizens of st. Paul began
putting up the great arches to celebrate
the completion of the Great Northern to
the Pacific, Mr.. HILL went to some of
the leaders and offered to donate $500
toward the building of public library
for st. Paul if they would abandon the
idea of celebrating. But, of course,
our business men would not abandon
the undertaking. mad MIR. HILL offered
a many times larger sum.
The last instance is an illustration of
Mr.. Hills antipathy to ostentation.
His good deeds are done quietly, and
with the hope that they will not come
to the knowledge of the public. His
contribution to Manchester college was
made with the request that it should be
kept secret. 1t is said that he has
given away'many large sums OF money
to worthy objects of charity and man
aged to have it all kept secret.
Charity work is his most enjoyable
pastime. But, unlike many people, he
never makes a mistake in the object
of his contributions, and his charity is
always WorthilY bestowed.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-08
OUR ADVANTAGES.

- Every wholesaler and manufacturer
who has contributed to this issue has
treated to some extent of the advan-
tages we gain by the completion of the
Great Northern railway; but d. r.
MOVES has made distinctive feature
of the topic, and handled it ably. This
road not only begins at st. Paul, as does
the Northern Pacific. but it is owned
and controlled by st. Paul men. 1t has
opened ana made tributary to st. Paul
one of the broadcast and richest tie rri-
tories in the world. Its compile ton, as
Mr.. MOVES says. adds new and great
confidence at home and abroad in the
greatness of the city, and encourages
building and development. 1t brings to
us vast commerce from the Oriental
world, and the trayel ling public of
nearly half the cOntin ent. IL will soon
build up great empire back of US. 1t
was built at a much less expense than
any other transcontinental line of North
America. has not half the debt Of any
other line, not nearly as much Outstand
ing stock, and being IN position to make
a rate which no other line can meet, it
is master of the field.
But it is not likely that the Great
Northern will attempt to ruin the other
lines; the most we can expect it to do is
to reduce the traffic rate to reason
able figure. 1t will add great impetus
to the growth of the Pacific coast, and
thus benefit the other lines. We may
well expect to see the great wilderness
between the Missouri and the coast
develop SOON into populous common
wealths, and when that time comes
railway tariffs will be no greater than
in the eastern part of the continent.
st. Paul is and always will be the
headquarters of the Great Northern.
1t is an artery which will develop and
feed new world from st. Paul. AS
that territory grows. st. Paul must
grow. This is the railroad center of the
Northwest. and the gateway to the
great country west. In addition to
this, it is the head of navigation of the
great Mississippi, and not distant fro m
the head of the lakes. Chicago has not
so many natural advantages as we
have
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-08

foibles hateful to his fellows. The solid
edifice he has erected on the hard sub
stratum OF his conscious power to COM
prehend and control will not be seri-
ously shaken while he lives to guard it.
And the impress stamped upon it by
His COnquering Intelligence
will endure long after his direction has
ceased. But his enduring fame. his
title to the gratitude of future genera
lions demand even more than TO have
encircled his life with this zodiac of
high achievements. 1t is something to
gain and keep enormous power; it is
more to use it for the very best. 1T is
something to maintain and increase the
prosperity OF great enterprises-it is
more to so manage them as to promote
the prosperity and happiness of all con-
cerned in them or with them. 1t is
something, it is much. to beckon
towns and cities into exist
ence at will; to furrow imperial
realms of fertile but unpeOpled acres
with iron roadways, and bid them burst
into golden haryests; to scale granite
cliffs of continental vertebr8, that the
Dlue-arched greennesS of the prairie
may be linked to the soundless, seas
but it is more to ordain equity between
labor which is toll militant, and capital
which is toll triumphant; to so admin
lister justice between the corporation
and its patrons as to work out the gold
EN- rules prescribed benefcence. 1t is
something glorious to have acquired
great wealth but it Is more. and
most, to use it glorious.y. The evidence
is ample that In this higher aspect of
success Mr.. Hill has risen to the full
stature of his splendid Opportuni-
ties. His employees have their equitable
share of the rewards of common effort.
The tributary populations duly partici-
pate in the general prosperity. And his
private benefactiOnS, as wisely discrim-
mating in their objects as princely IN
their munificence, testify that riches
have come to fertilize and fructify-not
TO harden and debase.
What hath this man wrought?
Not perfect man probably {;
scanned with frailties, no doubt,
like all Of us; carrying bur-
dens we know not Of. Yet a strong
man; full man; worker, with every
slnew of his body and every fiber ofhis
| mind. The embodiment of intellectual
| power;a liable to concentrate all his bounti-
| full faculties into one burning focus, and
compass great results as by magic where
| no magic was. but only intense, prOtract-
| ed,victoriOus effort. st. Paul honOrsJames
| j. Hill We are grateful TO him for his
work and rejoice in his trlumphs. We
have absolute faith in him because we
! know him. And we have absolute faith
| III the structures he has reared, because
| we have watched the patient toll with
| which he deepened and broadened their
| foundations, and the matcnleSs skill
| with which he has built their walls,
like pillars which the hand of Time has
raised to count his ages by"