St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-24

At a meeting of the ST. Paul Real
Estate exchange yesterday morning
, Douglas II. Lamb, manager department
: Of membership and organization, Ma
tiopal Real Estate association, and sec
rotary worlds congress. addressed the
exchange in relation to preparations
fobthe meeting of the national associa-
: tion to; be held in ST. Paul in August,
:, 1891. Attention was called to the fact
/, thai the. national association was organ
lied in 1892, about 900 delegates meet
ing at Nashville Tor the purpose.
Ihe delegates were representative e
brokers and agents dealing in real estate
from all parts of the country. In 0c-
tober OF the same year another meeting
was held at Buffalo, about 600 delegates,
accompanied by fully 5000 visitors. at
tending. At this meeting st. Paul was
represented by membership of about
fifteen, and succeeded in, securing the
next meeting for this city. but, in view
of the worlds real estate congress at
Chicago and the unfavorable times, the
regular meeting. which otherwise would
have been held at st. Paul in Augu.t,
1875, was postponed one year.
+ Mr.. Lamb stated that he came now to
the city i'll the interest of the assoeia-
ton, and i'll relation to the convention
He was employed by the national as
ISOLATION in the interest of its member-
ship. and was now just from Mitchell.
S. d., where meeting of the agents
and brokers of that state had been held,
of, iah hn
fully and favorably discussed. He
should attend similar meeting at Dem
yer early in January, and should be
working or travelling constantly in the
interest of the association. He asked
that st. Paul furnish him with a leafiet
or small pamphlet which he could
use i'll connection with his work
of exciting interest or attracting atten-
ton to the association and its general
purposes. but more especially TO St.
Paul and the meeting to be held here.
He believed that instead of 500 or 600
delegates, such as they had had at
Nashville and Buffalo, they would have
an attendance of four or five times that,
and a propOrtionate increase in attend
| ance OF visitors. He, believed that it
was wise to invite the Western states
accustomed to booming to come here
with their products of cereals, their
ores, and other features on which they
| .relysto boom their interests, and con-
vert the convention into a sort of
exposition of Western interests. 1t
would interest -. and benefit the
people engaged in doing it, and
1meet with encouragement from the
states OF localities interested and
from the railroads and other great in
hn IN N q
| development of these new countries,
| which have already done so much
toward building up st. Paul and other
|; trade centers. He delicately reminded
Iothe exchange that their mem bershlp in
1.-THE national association is now reduced
l,to three, and that it would look better
lito have it as large as it was when they
went to Buffalo and captured the con-
tsvention for next year.
/? Mr.. Hodgson urged the Importance of
| athe work, and reported the result of his
lgconference with railroad and Wholesale
| interests iii connection with Mr.. Lamb
! ;the. day before. 1t would require the
Iuactife cooperation of all interests to
make the convention the grand success
(which he could see for it,but they could
do it. . 90 -
Il Mr.. Fairchild was heartily in favor of
pall that had been suggested and was
confident that Mr.. Lambs labors would
resu1tEln advertising st. Paul wonder
fully. 10
MI. Hoerr. Mr.. Candy. Mr.. Chilten-
den and others spoke in the same line.
Messrs. Hoerr, Candy aud Reed were
appointed committee on membership
in the national association. Mr.. Fair
child presented some valuable matter
that he suggested as suitable for the
page st. Paul has engaged in the report
of the worlds congress of real estate,
and it was adopted for use in that CON
nection, but it is to be accompanied by
diagram bringing out the statistics in
the clearest possible light, in which ST.
Paul is shown as the center Of North
America.