The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-08-10

he has to habitually wear glasses now
for defective vision. Duluth is reg
ular cemetery Of buried newspaper en-
terprises, yet there are no signs of de-
cadence about the Herald under Mr..
Weiss's management. As money
maker and winner the Herald is only
matched in this State by the Mime
apof1s Evening Journal, and even un-
der the present depressed condition of
trade, the Herald's advertising receipts
are such as to make provincial news
paper man almost dizzy. Located in
the Herald's fine new Office building.
equipped with every convenience in
cluding perfecting press which prints
pastes and folds 5000 eight page pa
pers an hour, with a personal popular
ity in the city which no one disputes
and one of the pleasantest of homes,
A. G. is in clover, and I am inclined
to think he rather enjoys the good
things he has hustled for whenever he
has time to think about them, which
is none too often.
Another successful Duluth rustler,
who was Redwood boy only few
years ago, is Willie Albeit. Willie's
fresh-looking features have developed
kindly under the influence of the lake
breezes, and he has erected winsome
moustache upon them since he became
a lake-dweller. Perhaps this may have
something to do with the marked pop
ularity which the Duluth Drug Co.'s
soda fountain and bon bon counters
enjoy. When I was there the other
evening, the ladies were trooping in
SO contantly after refreshments that
our Redwood pharmacist had time
only to shake hands and inquire after
Redwood friends between orders. Mr..
Albeit has an interest in the company,
which has two stores and is doing, as
| am informed, business averaging
about $500 per month.
Speaking generally of Duluth aud
its prospects. it appears to be on a
sound basis in almost all respects. It
is the natural toll gate between the
wheat fields of the northwest and the
seaboard by virtue Of it's location.
Circumstances have likewise made
Duluth the coaling station for the vast
area west of the lake and of the Miss
issippi. Vessels coming here with
coal or merchandise are not dependent
on wheat alone for the return cargo,
but the large number of lake craft en-
gagged in carrying ore from the iron
mines can bring back coal instead of
mere dead ballast at very low rate.
Thus Duluth can take toll both ways,
and is not at all timid about doing it.
Duluth coal handlers and elevator
men do not live on ozone alone.
This week the opening of the new
railroad to the Mesaba mines is to be
celebrated: The newspapers announce
that work on the big mines in the
Vermillion district, farther north, has
been suspended, throwing out several
thousand miners. The great advant-
age claimed for the Mesaba mines, is
that instead of haying to dig costly
pits and tunnels, the rich ore is so near
the surface that it can be readily
scooped from the ground onto the cars
with the ordinary steam shovel used
in grading and dredging. This makes
it easy and inexpensive to load a whole
train with ore. The road bed runs on
steep grade from the lake to the
mines, SO that the ore fairly goes
coasting down hill to its destination in
West Duluth-said to be the largest
ore dock in the world.
The grasshopper is perhaps the
most active citizen of Duluth at the
present time. The woods, the denud-
ed lawns, and even the sidewalks
swarm with him. It shows the innate
dopravity of the insect, that of all
places on earth he should rob Duluth
of the few blades of grass that have
been imported and coaxed into being
on her rocky slopes, But our grass
hopper is nothing daunted by the
scarcity of green fodder. Brussels