The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-08-10
WEEK At DULUTH.
Redwood Boys on Ice, 6rasshop-
pers and Other Lively
Creatures.
The Toll Gate of the Lakes Still on
!. Its hlnges--Iron Mining With
a Steam Shovel.

It's uln0eS--lrOn mining with
a Steam Shovel.
Coming through the almost broiling
heat of last Monday to Duluth, it was
refreshing to hear a fellow pilgrim in
the car seat behind mine say to the
man beside him, "She's regular old
refrigerator. It was only 60 at Duluth
yesterday, while we were trying to
keep alive at SO at St. Paul." A little
later our train made turn around a
curve into the area famed by the
breezes of that greatest of inland seas,
Lake Superior, when Presto! the re-
frigerator welcomed us with it's cool
ing breath, WEAKNESS and perspiration
were both blown over the divide into
the Mississippi basin. As evening
came on light overcoats were in vogue,
and / was assured that on the evening
before-the hottest night at Minneap-
oils | have experienced for years
breeze off the lake made many Du-
luthians light fires in their CRATES. No
wonder that facetious newspaper in
a rival town reported few days ago,
that q citizen who had just returned
from Duluth had met with no casualty
on the trip, except that his ears had
been slightly frost bitten. Duluth has
a summer every year, however, and
even quite warm days as I have
learned the past week. But the pre-
vailing even temperature convinces
me that the summer resort par excel
lence is somewhere along the shores
of Lake Superior.
Compared with other towns at this
trying time, Duluth is distinctly alive.
The building up Of the city goes right
along, regardless of the dubious f.
nancial conditions everywhere. It
seems to me that there are more bust
] ness blocks under construction here
than in both the cities of st. Paul and
Minneapolis. Of course the universal
complaint about hard times is heard
here as elsewhere, and not few la
boring men have been thrown out of
employment on that account. But the
Duluth papers are justified in brag-
ging little over the fact that none of
her banking institutions have been
shaken. and only the ordinary per.
centage of business failures have oc-
Cured here.
Everyone must be impressed with
the way things in Duluth are hustled
along something after the manner at
Chicago. The electric cars whirl down
the sharp grades at terrific speed
that would be actionable in an eastern
city, OF even at St. Paul or Minn9ap-
oils. The express and delivery wag-
ons tear along the same way. But
was just little staggard few days
ago to sec train of carriages follow
ing hearse containid b a coffin, all On
a keen trot. Ihope the police did not
arrest the driver of the hearse for fast
driving, as he was probably yidetermined
that the deceased should get to the
front like good Duluthian, in death
as well as in life.
don't suppose that they kill off
their old men here after the ancient
Spartan fashion, or that there is any
city ordinance providing that all drones
in business shall be thrown into the
lake. But it looks as though neither
the aged nor the slow poke is tolerated
here in business. As an illustration,
take the force of bright. editors, re-
porters and business attaches of the
leading Duluth evening paper, the
Herald. With one exception the ven-
cradle A. G. Weiss, our ex-R Redwood
boy, is the "old man" of the force.
The frosts of thirty winters have not
as yet superannuated the sometime
"kid' of The REDWOOD GAZETTE, though