The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-16

ent market house property for other
property in whole or in part, suitable
for market house purposes.
Whenever the subject of the location
of new market house, involving the
expenditure of money by the city has
recently been raised, attention has been
at once called to the necessity of a
public library building.
The fact that the present facilities
for the accommodation of market gar
deners were insufficient has been con-
stantly met by reminder Of the coun-
ter fact that the present accommoda-
tons for the public library were equal
ly inadequate, with the result that
the two factions, after hours of wrang-
ling, usually parted company, sorrow
fully If not angrily. and oftentimes
without saying good bye, and with ex-
pressions of countenances which SEEM
ed to say they might never meet again.
There are indications, now, that some
one has been found, possessed of
ability and wisdom sufficient to enable
the two factions to once more come
together on a plane broad enough to
effect unity and harmony Of action and
thus remove permanently two local
sources of contention and smultane-
ously cause number of fault finders
to lose their jobs.
Outlfved It's Usefulness.
1t is conceded with reasonable una
nimity, that the old market house.
after having served its purpose of ex-
istence very acceptably has, on account
of the growth of the city and the
change Of methods in handling prod
uce, ceased to be a useful possession of
the city beyond its real estate value,
growing out of it's location.
When the building was constructed
by the residences Of people who bought
directly from the market men produce
for consumption in their own homes.
Not only have the residence centers
shifted to other sections far remote
from the site of the present market
house, but by the more general use Of
refrigerators in their establishments
and stores, the retail grocers in all
parts of the city handle vegetables,
fruit and the like, and the market
gardeners sell to these taders as well
as to the commission men in a whole
sale way; their patronage by the con-
sumer has ceased to exist, and conse-
quently there is no necessity for being
located on a site easily accessible to
them.
BY the process of natural gravitation,
as these new conditions developed and
advanced, the market gardeners came
to make the sidewalk on west Third
street their stand. Then a shed was
erected for the use of some, on the bluff
at Market street, west of the West
Publishing company's building.
During the past season there were
many complaints offered by property
owners to the system of squatting thus
instituted by the farmers, though prac-
tically all of the latter were willing to
pay a tithe to the owners of buildings
or tenants for the privilege of stand
ing in the street for a few hours until
the produce was sold to the commission
men and retail grocers.
But feeling developed between the two
interests with the result that many
farmers, who could do so with equal
convenience to themselves, have aban-
doned St. Paul and carried their stock
to Minneapolis, where better and per-
manent facilities are afforded.
Last fall the feeling of hostility be-
tween the property owners or lessees