St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-01
OUR FOREIGN GUESTS
DELIGHTED AND BEWHDERED WITH
WONDERS OF THEIR TRIP.
HOW THEY WE'RE IMPRESSED.

Great Admiration for the Golden
Northwest and its Enterpris-
ing Peopie-Magic Growth Of
the Twin Cities-Agricuitur
Colleges Praised Thanks for
Hospitality.
CHICAGO, Aug. 31.-The foreign COM
mlssioners and the Associated Press
correspondents who were the guests of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul and
the Great Northern railroads, on trip to
the harvest fields of North Dakota and
Minnesota, returned this evening de-
lighted with the pleasures and bewil-
dered with the educational experiences
of the trip. The sentiment of the party
was one of surprise at the civilization
of the farming country of the United
States. Where the visitors expected TO
lind wilderness they saw fields of
grain cultivated to the highest perfec-
ton. Where they thought to find an
unsophlsticated and struggling popula-
ton they found educated and prosper
GUS people. A few Of the comments of
the visitors follow in response to the
question, "What most impressed you
on the trip"
Capt Victor NJ. Conoas, Commander
of the Caravels-The School of Agricult-
IRE of North Dakota, established at
Fargo, is the greatest proof of provision
OF a people who think of generations
and times that none Of us will see.
John F. Atkinson, Master Cutler of
Sheffield, and President of Dore Agri-
cultural Society," have been deeply
impressed with much that have seen
and experienced on nay visit to the great
wheat-growing Northwest. l do not
know which has aroused in me the
greatest admiration, the
Greatness of the Country,
the grandeur of its scenery or the genius
of its people.
Senior Don Enrique Dupuy de LONE,
Royal Spanish Commissioner General
The Impression that the great North
west has made on me is an impression
OF wonder for the rapldity of the growth
OF this important part of the empire of
the United States. L firmly believe that
the development of this great nation is
the consequence of the work of centu-
rieS in the old world. But even to a
person accustomed as 1 am to the sur
prises given by the progress of man in
this Union, it is not possible to see
nation with wealth, culture, laws and
society, formed in less than a score of
years, If 1t were not, as in the
East, the result of the experience of the
old world and in the West of the
energy of the Eastern states. The
young Northwest has been worked
by the example of what was
thought the greatest industry of
mankind. Others have probably ad-
mired the vast wheat fields or the great
young cities. 1 admire more the faculty
of assimilation that makes American
citizens Of so many foreign elements,
and the culture OF the people that we
have seen in clubs, schools and theaters,
aud that VIII bring as large crops to the
welfare of the country as the boundless
and rich fields of the Northwest.
Col. j. f. Hobbs, New South Wales,
Australia proprietor of the Sydney
Morning Herald) = What struck me
most? Everything. The quiet, sober,
sturdy character of the people and their
large, comfortable homes. The eco
nomic system of working and hand
ling the grain is perfect. l was struck
with the superb schools and colleges Of
North Dakota
and the permanent character of its
frt VnY, I,o,, To IT,. -
to see wild West.
A. q. Asdikian, Turkish Agricultural
COmmissioner-The trip has been to me
beautiful panorama; never-to- be-
forgotten lesson, and one which l hope
to be able in some small degree to i'm
part to my people. Agriculture as you
practice it is perfected science, and l
can only hope and trust that in the near
future Turkey will enjoy the facilities
which you do. enabling it to get from
the fields their full quota of grain. We
have the intelligence, the pluck and the
energy. All we need are the tools and
the knowledge of their use.
ID. III. de Paralta, M. D., d. V. S.,
Assistant Commissioner From Costa
Rica-l admired everything your
scenery, your fields, your machinery.
But most OF all admired the beautiful
women of the Northwest. Never before
was it my experience TO see such beauty.
culture, refinement. and above all, hos
pitallty, which l have received at their
hands. They have my thanks and my
greatest admiration.
E. r. Grobler, Commissioner From
the Orange Free State-It would take
too much space for me even to summar-
lie my Impressions and surprising eX-
periences. What struck me above all
are the revOlutioniZing res ults of the
Railway Industry
In developing the resources of this coun-
try. The hospitality and kindness we
enjoyed on this excursion can never be
forgotten.
Prof. Vulko l. Shopof, Bulgarian
COmmiSsioner-The Impressions which
have been indicated strongly on my
mind, and which will remain as long as
l live, are, first of all. the highly devel-
oped means for transportation. [ can
not help feeling that the parts which
we visited owe their quick develop
ment to the splendid railway sys-
TEN which connects them with
the best and foremost markets In
the. world. Secondly, the scenery
growth and development of such cities
as st. Paul and Minneapolis, and the
industries which have sprung there
with such gigantic dimensions. Fourth,
the great hospitality of the people
wherever We went. and the royal recep-
ton given US. Fifth, the mode and
extent of your farming and the use of
machinery.
w. o. Campbell, New South Wales
Commissioner - What astouished me
more than anything else was the gigan-
tic scale everything was carried out on.
1t took me some time to realize what
saw. was also much impressed with
the good work being done at che Agri-
cultural College Of North Dakota, and
the Open-handed hospitality of its good
people.
Edmund Mitchell, MA, Special Cor
respondent OF the Melbourne Age and
Sydney Daily Telegraph, Australia
The vastnesS of the scale upon which
wheat farming is carried on in the
Northwest has come to he as a reveIa-