The Saint Paul globe., 1898-10-16
RIVER At s a. N.
Danger Gauge Change in
The Industrial Exhibition.


There has been no more pleasing in
cidert associated with the industrial
history Of this city than that which is
now being illustrated in the exhibition
in progress at Market hall.
The actual merits of community are
best reflected through material evI,
dence of what it can do for itself; and
in this respect the community is only
an enlargement and combination of tha
qualities Of the individuals composing
#. A man may make little or much Of
himself, according to the application of
his energies and the environment OF
circumstances. Less depends upon tha
latter than the former; but when thS
two are cO-equal success is inevitable.
The city Of ST. Paul is not a COM.
munity located in a chance way. The
settlement came to be established herr
because Of its peculiarly advantageous
location as a commercial center, in the
gradual development Of the great Sec
ton tributary thereto. The same spirit
which led the pioneers to plant a trad
ing colony at the head Of navigation
of the Mississippi river attracted men
stinct which may be defined as fore
sight; and the business intelligence and
the trading instinct in the individuals
thus combined have contributed to the
development of this city to its existing
degree Of Importance among the COM
mercial centers Of the Northwest. It
has required fifty years and more Of
growth to bring st. Paul to its present
high plane in the business world. 1t
has not been a city of spasmodic
growth, but it has gone on thriving.
year by year, encOuntering occasional
periods of depression, but always re-
spending to every fresh impulse, and
meanwhile maintaining an enViabls
reputation for business integrity.
Thus, as the nineteenth century
closes, the pioneers Of this settlement
who still survive have a rare salts
faction in contemplating a people who,
through their own energy and thought
fully applied intelligence, have created
a metropolis, itself the capital city Of
a great and rapidly growing common
wealth, destined 70 be one of the most
important states in the Union.
And now it has come to pass that ST.
Paul is capable in a dignified and be-
coming way of assembling in one great
hall, and under one roof, the evidences
of her own material progress during
the period of her existence, and she Is
entitled to a contemplation of what has
been accomplished, and to a genial and
hopeful anticipation of what the reali-
ties of today may supply as a founda-
tiOn for her future greatness.
The Northwestern Manufacturers
association, in bringing about this in
dustrial exhibition, are entitled to much
credit foI their work And it may
also be appieciatively added that, in the
support afforded by the action of the
city council, large benefits have been
conferred upon the community, as a
whole. But beyond the work of these
elements of trade and municipal gov
eminent, and still more worthy of ap-
preciatiVe recognition, stand forth the
evidences Of the labor of the women
of st. Paul, the wives and family COM
pariOns of the business men and those
who make our municipal laws, repre-
sented in the Ladies' auxiliary. To
this last mentioned organization OF
sensible and home-lOving women. with
their natural pride of the particular
locality in which their lots have been
cast, is due the unstinted credit of
making the present exhibition the sue
cessful undertaking which it already
promises to be.
This exhibition has for its object the
bringing together of specimsns of the
bandiWOtk, in the way Of ma aufactures
ART Of TJio+ +oI1 i
with the city. The legend contained in
the official catalogue, viz, ''By it's facto-
ries and workshops is the city known" !"
reflects, in its own simplicity of truth.
ful statement, the underlying thought
of the promoters of this educational
means Of demonstrating the city's real
material worth. The principle is novel.
also in that the exhibition is free to
all. st. Paul is creative in MANY of
IT'S industries. There are centered here
thousands of artisans whose workman
ship is of the best that can be found
any where on the continent. 1t has been
with a view to affording all classes OF
the people an opportunity 10 really e
what st. Paul is doing in the Way OF
prOducIiveness Of a high order that
this exposition was instituted, and that
the doors were unbarred to any respec-
table and decent person wIo might be
disposed to inspect the outcome of the
factories and the workshops existing
all around us, but of the quality of
Which whole community has long
been practically in ignorance
The Market hall has been thoroughiy
transformed into q most interesting
series Of pavilions and chambers and
galleries and arcades, wherein are clus-
tered specimens of everything which st.
Paul genius, skill and industry are
giving forth, all the way from the
simplest tool for use in mechanics 10
magnificent productions Of native tall
ent IN the fine arts.
T,hus far he Il hors of those Who haze