The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-11
EAsT END OF THE MARKET TO
SHELTER HOME PRODUCT
EXHIBIT.
1T WILL BE PERMANENT, TOO.
UNION ARRANGES
WITH CITY AUTHORITIES FOR
A LEASE.
They Propose to Make the Exhibit
of Value to the City and It's
People.

The Manufacturers union have COM
exhibition, which will be held in the
east end Of the market house. A COM
mittee from the union, consisting of
A. Norman, George Freeman, J. John
stone, G. F. Kuhles, Walter Driscoll,
William Hamm and H. Fischbein, held
a session with the committee on public
buildings from the council yesterday
afternoon, and after two hours discus
sion prevailed on the committee to al
low the union to rent the east or Waba-
sha street end of the building for $50
per month.
Secretary Church explained that the
exhibit would consist only of goods
and wares manufactured in st. Paul.
and that it would not be money
making scheme, as none of the goods
on exhibition would be for sale. The
idea was to have sixty manufacturers,
or as many as could be put in the space,
exhibit goods. Twice a week concerts
would be given by a good band, and
the exhibit would be open daily for
visitors. Mr.. Church said the exhibit
would be of interest to visitors as well
as to residents of the city, large num-
Der of whom were not acquainted with
the large number and classes of goods
manufactured in the city. Jobbing and
other industries might build a city up
for time, but in the end it was the
manufacturing plants that gave work
to the people. ST. Paul was at the
bottom of the list in respect to manu-
features, for where the city had one
| person in every hundred engaged in
manufacturing, other cities had thirty
Or forty in each 100 so engaged.
Walter Driscoll said the object was
| to create a demand for goods of home
manufacture, and there was no better
| way than to have an exhibit such as
was contemplated. There would be no
sales Of peanuts or soda water, and
| there would be no admission fee. Each
| exhibitor would be taxed small space
rent to pay the fixed charges, but the
! union did not intend to make the af-
fair a money making concern. For
this reason he asked the committee ON
| public buildings to make the rent as
| low as possible.
Assemblyman Thompson thought it
would be good idea to have the city
| charge fair rent for the building. An
| offer had just beeen made to rent the
| the portion OF the building for 500 by
bicycle firm. Mr.. Craig also favored
the union paying a good rent for the
building. Mr.. Driscoll said, if that was
the position the committee took, the
| scheme might as well be dropped
| President Kuhles urged the impor-
lance of giving the manufacturers a
chance to show the residents Of the city
what was made in st. Paul. If only
! 20 per cent of the goods bought out
! side Of the city were purchased from
home manufacturers, work could be CIV
en- to 1000 people, and the city would be
so much benefited. The council COM
mittee and the committee from the
| manufacturers union adjourned to the
| market house to look over the building.
| After a deal of haggling and several
| ballots, the councilmen agreed to rent
| the portion of the building asked for
! at $50 per month. Aid. Shepard, Kali
! dunski and Assemblyman Albrecht
were in favor Of allowing the manu-
| facturers the use of the building for
| $25 per month on the ground that It
| was a public enterprise Assemblymen
| Craig, Thompson and Aid. Larsen, how
! ever, wanted S75 per month"; claiming
| that this would only about pay the ex-
penses of the care and heating of the
| space. A compromise was agreed on
| at $50 per month.