The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-02
Buffalo Democrats in Clover.
They Have Just Come Into Power in the Lake Erie
Metropolis.

extensive scales. Every South Ameri-
can country is expected to join, and it
is hoped every one Of the states will
have an exhibit. The plans are some
thing stupendous.
OF course. there will be Midway"
In TACT though by some other name 1t
Will smell as sweet. Herbert l.. Baker,
manager Of the American Type Found
ers' company in Buffalo, but until a.
lew years ago a resident Of st. Paul,
has suggested the word "Syzygy" as
the title of the amusement department
and his suggestion has been adopted.
Syzygy is an astronomical term for a
collection Of stars and has the charm
Of being entirely appropriate as well as
odd. Look out for Syzygy to be the
raging word in the newspapers and
popular songs in 1899.
Mr.. Baker has also induced the man
agement to set apart a special building
with 100000 square feet on the ground
floor for display Of the graphic arts.
This is to include the making Of paper,
type, printing inks and newspapers and
display Of machinery for binding cleo
trotyping, bookmaking, 5oxmahng,
Ethographing, engraving, photo-en-
craving. etching, etc. It will show
every one how what they read and
what they see in pictures are made.
While the worlds fair illustrated these
matters, 1t did not have them concen-
trated, or in as extensive form as Mr..
Bakers plan contemplates.
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
The city has a free public library
Of which it is justly proud. Prior to
Sept. 1, 1897, it belonged to the Buffalo
Library association, with a. charge Of
So per year, but on the date named it
was leased to the city for ninety-nine
years, and tax levy of four-flfths Of
three-tenths Of a mill Is made for its
support. The building was erected in
1883 at a cost Of SO, SOC, 900; contains As
600 volumes, and an average of 5000
volumes per day are drawn out by the
citizens. Instead of having to peer
through a brass wicket, as in our lit
tie cock loft IN the court house. and if
you ask for a book worth reading be
told it is out (going from one favorite
to anotheD without any search by the
attendant, visitors can go to the shelves
In the Buffalo library and select their
book, taking it to the attendant to be
registered. What pleased me most in
my visit to the library was the chill
dren's department. When the distin-
guished people now active on earth
have finished their jobs and taken their
discharge, the children of today will
take their places, and the children are
the coming factors to rule the world.
I admire anything that helps to adj
vance the children and makes them
happy, or better fits them for the future.
They have here three large rooms es-
pecially for the children. with young
lady attendants. The rooms are open
from 2;30 to $3.50 p. m. on school days,
and from 8 a. m. to $50 p M. on Sat
urdays, and from 9 a. m. to $50 p. m.
on holidays. They are also open from
q i 1~,.k L. Sic
are received or delivered that day. The
children can sit and read or look at
pictures, or go to the shelves and Sc
lect their own books. Among the books
are the highly colored and greatly ad-
mired, by the little tots, picture primer
books so that poor children who can
not own them in their tender and most
delightful years can still enjoy them.
would rather see one poor child of the
primer age made happy than a dozen
adults who have outgrown the primer
and the colored ink. One Of the young
ladies told me that they had fifty-five
copies Of Eggleston's history Of the
United States. but there was rarely
copy in, and turning to the shelf to
show me a copy her statement was
verified by all being absent. DR.. Egg
author, was formerly resident Of st.
Paul, and did literary work on the
Pioneer, for the writer, in 1866.
They could not tell me just how
many children call daily, but they
were coming trooping in and out in
great throngs, happy. laughing chill
dren, free from cares which are yet to
come. That is why 1 believe in CIV
ing children a good time, and why I
admire tie children's department Of
the Buffalo library, and the manner it
is conducted. They take out an aver
age of 700 books on school days and
/ 200 on Saturdays.
AS 1 stepped from the elegant
library building to the street 1 thought
of the cock-loft in the st. Paul court
house which poses as a library, and
I said to myself: How long, o Lord,
how long?"
A NEWSPAPER NOTABLE.
One of the newspaper characters Of
Buffalo is W. J. Corners, the proprie-
tor of the Morning Courier Record
and Evening Bulletin. He was born in
Buffalo in 1857, and attended the COM
mon schools until he was thirteen
years old, when he went as a porter
on steamers running to Duluth. After
two years of this life he was a saloon
keeper at fifteen and a, dock laborer at
twenty. In 1885 he made a contract
with a Buffalo steamboat company to
load and unload their package freight,
and from being a dock laborer himself
he at once sprang into being the en-
ployer of his own class.
From this beginning his business has
become enormous, and he now handles
all package freight for all the steam
boats at Buffalo, Chicago, Milwaukee
and Gladstone, employing in the height
Of the season over 1000 men. He has
hppTo al Of
company in Buffalo, owns a brewery,
bank, copper mine and two newspa-
pers. The Buffalo newspapers cr:ti-
cised him pretty severely in connection
with some dock laborer strikes, and,
though not exactly educated for an
editor, he concluded in 1895 to break
into the profession for himself To
that end he bought a not very -four
ishing evening paper called the En-
quirer. This prospered, but did not
satisfy his newspaper ambition, and in
December, 1896, he started the Morn
ing Record without a news franchise.
In May, 1897, he bought the Courier.
one of the old morning Associated
Press papers of Buffalo, and now pub
fishes the Courier-Record in the morn
ing and Enquirer in the evening.
Neither paper was paying when he
bought them, but he now has the most
prohtaple newspaper property in Buff
falo. He does not do active editorial
work. but he absolutely directs the
policy of his papers, and, as in his
other extensive affairs. places men in
charge with such a system of account
ing that he knows every night where
he stands financially. He is a gold
Democrat, and his papers supported
Mckinley in 1895 and Scatchard in
1897 He has a $4,000 yacht, on which
he entertains his friends royalty in the