St. Paul daily globe., 1893-05-23
MINNEAPOLIS.
CORRIDOR CHATS.

Senator Henry heller,OI SauK CenteI.
the vouble Teutonic whose volcanic
emissions of el0qGelce have time and
again reYerberaled and re-reverberated
within the narrow confines of the state
senate chamber was in Minneapolis
yesterday. Mr.. Keller is a prominent
Northwestern manufacturer. Ihe agri-
cultural implements from his FACTORIES
find ready sale all over the Northwest.
He finds time, as rev ,3Ss, P9Sg
business men do, to combine
politics with bis business affairs
and for several years has represented
Stearns county In the senate. Senator
Keller has Just returned from Chicago.
While there he attended the worlds
fair, and was leading participant in
the ceremonies dedcatory of the Min
nesota state building. There was no
other prominent citizen on the ground
to receive the keys of the building after
its dedication, and so the senator was
chosen to ofticiate IN, that capacity.
That he acted well hEs>rost has already
been told IN the press dispatches. Speak
ing of the fair and the arrangements
there, Senator Keller said:
No one who has not seen it can nave
any conception OF its wonderful eXhlD-
its, illustrative of the resources and IN
dustries of all of the nations OF the
earth. Germany, my fatherland, has an
exhibit that cost at least $4,000, 600. Inc
other nations of the old and new world
are correspondingly represented. Inc
Minnesota state building is one of the
most picturesque OH the grounds. 1t IS
attractive, not only in its architectural
qualities, but also in its exhibits.
Like those OF most states, however,
the exhibit is not in its most reSplehd-
ent glory North Dakota has an at
tractive exhibit, probably the strongest
in the lines of grains and grasses on the
grounds, but il is not yet in completed
shape: neither is Iowa or South Da-
kota, in overlooking both of which eX-
hibits spent the better part OF day.
Senator Kellor spent eight days IN
Chicago, aud is we'll acquainted with
the attractions, perfectOnS and detects
of the big show. He authorizes the
Tribune to say in MS behalf that it Is a
great show and that all who eau should
attend it, lie ridicues the cry OF the
alarmiSts that the restaurant prices Oh
the grounds are prohibllory, and says
that they are as low as sensible man
could ask for. Even were they not,
he continued, 'the people VINO pay thenl
would not object. This is, America
great show: it will eclipse all the prevl-
so much more worth seeing than the
country circus that our friends from the
rural districts who buy red lemonade
and multi-colored popcorn will not OBJ
ject to the food and drink price lists"
Mrs. E. G.. ShOrtridge, wife of the In
dependent governor of North Dakota,
and Mrs. A. w. Porter, wife of the state
auditor who rode into Office on the
Il Hnn
are at the West. The ladies are en-
route to the worlds fair.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. n. Gardner. Mr.. and
Mrs. g. K. Colby, Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar
Williams and l.. st. Claire Colby are &
tourist party from Orange, n. D., wbc
spent Yesterday at the West.
J. B. Conant and wife, of Lowell
Mass, are guests at the West. MT
Conant is the surviving representative
of firm of auctioneerS that have been
continuously in business for lob years
They send men all over the country on
big sales, and Mr.. COnantS present
business in Minneapolis is to manage
the rug sale now in progress at the Min
neapoliS Dry Goods company. Low
ell" said Mir. COnant, lis the great
est cotton manufacturing city in
the new world. The city has felt the
effects of the change of administration
am interested i'll firm that manufact
ures cotton cloth, machinery for new
mills, and | know that it suffers by
HarriSOn'S defeat. Last summer many
orders were taken with a clause in the
contract that if Harrison was defeated
they should be cancelled. This has ap'
precIably affected our business, but we
are proceeding on more cautious lines
and expect to find business better as the
years 20 0n.'
And as to the financial situation Mr.
COnant said he did not believe anything
serious was now to be expected. he
thinks the Stringency of the money
market has been relieved, and that a
few weeks will see return to norma
conditions.
A party of prominent Californan'
were at the West yesterday. The party
was headed by G. S. LaumeiSter, eX
sheriff OF the county in which san Fran
cisco is situated. 1t was the first visit to
Minneapolis OF most of the party
and Mr. LaumeIster, as the spokesman
for the rest, said they were amazed anC
delighted at what they had seen. ''We
Know" said he, "what Western push
and enterprise is, because we have seen
il exemplitied on the coast, but it is a
little bit surprising to acome so far in
land as Minneapolis and see superior
exhibit thereof. We have seen y0ul
buildings, your drives, parks, lakes anc
boulevards, and we are willing to admit
that there is at least Que pro-
gressve city in the Mississippi
valley" MIR. Laumeister says there
have been no evidences of "boom' OF
the coast for several years, but tha
there have been easily perceptible evi-
dences of increasing prosperity despite
the absence of the hurrah of a few
years ago and the great influx of East
ern capital. According to his opinion
this conservative situation is a goo(
omen, as he believes 1t will insure {
contir ruance of the steady growth anC
sensible realty movement that IS tht
only criterion of true prosperity.