The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-12-23
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feet.
Judge Weber, Bird and l started
out in the morning to see the lions of
the city. BIRD" is the family horse
and has imbibed the family sagacity.
You can let Bird go at the front door
and walk into the house unconcerned.
Bird will pace around the barn door
and turn two corners as squarely as if
driven by an expert. From the Her
man monument, which is an object of
art and substantially, there can be
had view of the whole city. The
city lies in an angle of the Minnesota
and Cottonwood rivers in the Mime
sofa valley on spot which evidently
was covered with water at some remote
period, and is most picturesque city.
It must surley have been prior to the
Christian era and before the advent of
the Teuton there that the edict went
forth that no churches should be built
and no lawyers should be allowed to
show face in the town, for, looking
from the heights the most prominent
objects are church steeples. One mas
sive church ediice there is, which
would be credit to any city and four
more of neat construction and elegant
design. Other cities might take leaf
from New Ulm's book in the erection
of water tower. The lower part,
built of brick, is in form of Corinthi-
an column and the cistern completes
the top of the column in column like
ness. The court house, red brick
solid structure, of gothic design, has
over it's front door bronze statue of
the goddess of justice with a drawn
sword in one hand and pair of scales
in the other. The goddess meantime
has got slightly loosened from her
pedestal so that the scales shake when
the wind blows. It might be we'll for
Judge Webber and John Lind to at
tend to this, lest stranger seeing it
some day should put it down as SYM
bolic. The audience room of the
court house, where the convention will
meet, is large and has excellent
acoustic properties, and the whole fit
ting up Of the building is done in
splendid modern style.
The Turner'S hall, neat Grecian
building, is wonderfully convenient
place with reading room, gymnasium,
lodge rooms, military rooms and all
sorts of conveniences for those who do
congregate there for the discipline of
body and mind, including, in the
basement, refreshment room for the
hungry.
The -four mill buildings are prom
inent feature Of the town and mark
one of the chief industries. I asked
Judge Weber, as we looked out
toward the south from the Hermann
monument over fine looking tract of
arabic land, what the price of land
was. He replied, eff there were any
for sale [ believe it would be about
$40 an acre, but [ do not remember in
ten. years having heard of farm to
SELL" I thought that a pretty good
certificate for a town and, in the sta
bility of the farming population, in
large measure, may be accounted the
large trade done by the New Ulm
flour mills.
The main business street has mag
niicent array of brick stores, Offices,
banks and other buildings. I do not
know any other town of 5000 people
in the northwest that has a street
which can cope with this. The mer-
chants of New Ulm, in advertising
through boards placed outside the
town, make the same mistake of many
other towns I see. They say, for OK.
ample, $50 to Jones Bros Were ]
merchant would say, "Come" in
stead of "Go." "Come" is a much
warmer word; people like it better.
, In the residential part of the town
there are many fine houses, notably
the homes of Messrs. Lind, Mueller
Silverson and Weschcke. Of these
, four Mr.. Lind's house is the most art
istic and DR.. Weschcke's the most
, substantial looking. [ had the pleasure
of seeing the inside Of the two last
named houses and in both, as a repre-
sentative of the convention, got g
hearty reception. Mr.. Lind, who, in
, addition to his genuine manhood, still
looks grave enough and wise enough