The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-14
, MADE Al HOME
,d,N,u FINE EXHIBITS ARE TO BE
SEEN AT MARKET
HALL
WOMAN'S WORK is MANIFEST

WUMAN - HVONN 10 WHNIE ES
In the Formal Opening of the Most
comprehensive Exhibit of Home
manufactured Articles That Has
Ever Been Made In the Northwest
Two Floors of Market Hall Are
Occupied.
The free industrial exhibition of the
Northwestern Manufacturers associa-
zion and the Ladies auxiliary was
bpened in Market hall last evening un-
der most favorable auspices. Though
the weather was not all that could be
t5sired fully 500 persons visited the eX-
libit during the evening. That was as
,arSe a number of visitors as was eX-
pected on the opening night.
The interior of the hall has been
changed beyond recognition. The man
ufacturers' association now occupies
the entire first floor and the Ladies
auxiliary the second, so there is ample
space for the various exhibits. A few
are not yet in place, but they will be
in complete order by tonight. The hall
Is handsomely decorated with banners
and bunting and the illuminations are
most brilliant.
The ceremonies incident to the formal
opening were held in the assembly hall
on the second floor. There every seat
was occupied and many spectators
were obliged to stand. The stage was
occupied by the officers of the assOcia-
ton and the auxiliary, and was deco
rated with plants and flags. The st.
Anthony hill orchestra sat below the
stage and rendered a number Of mu-
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WITH DUE CEREMONY.
Edward Vanish presided, and in his
Introductory remarks he dwelt upon
the necessity of establishing factories
in a city in order to insure Its growth
and prosperity.
"St. Paul" he said. has been built
up by home industries. Each new fac
tory has added to its population, and
such addition TO the population has en-
arged the volume of business. But we
want more in this city. Small manu-
factories are the backbone Of a city be-
cause they grow larger and larger, and
keep on adding to the number of opera
tives employed In that way they are
a permanent blessing.
Mr. Vanish then introduced Mrs.
Ansel Oppenheim, president Of the Ia
dies auxiliary, to whom, he said, was
due the credit for the exhibition Mrs.
Oppenheim was warmly welcomed.
She said:
MRS. OPPENHEIM'S SPEECH.
The meaning of this exhibition will be bet
ter understood after a brief glance at the
early history of st. Paul.
A little over a half a century ago, in a
land where, I have been told, the air was
pure as on creations primal morn, where the
prairie grass. strong and in some PAGES
above a mans head, had never been turned
by and pillow. where the only roadways
were the Indian trails, leading through the
forest, st. Paul was founded. 1t at the
head OF navigation. There was nothing with
which TO open commerce but the fur trade
with the abOrigines. With the cesSion, by the
Ojbways Of the pine lands Of the st. CroiX
TO the United States, the lumber trade was ad-
0ed. Incredible as II may seem, Minnesota,
which now produces the best wheat in the
world, was not at that time believed to be
an agricultural territory. 1t was supposed
by our Eastern friends to be a vast wilder
ness, unfit for cultivation. There are men
living among US, and no doubt there some
in this audience, who remember that late
as 1853 Gen. lie Due procured, after con-
siderable trouble and expense a few ears Of
corn from Cottage Grove, Sank Rapids and
Fort Ripley, in order TO demonstrate that
Minnesota was an agricultural territory.
Such were the primordial conditions under
which the pioneers OF st. Paul, in one gen.
Grafton built up large and prosperous city.
Their genius set the wheels of progress IN
such rapid motion as to dazzle the eyes OF
the beholder. By toll and enterprise they
demonstrated the unrivalled natural ad-
Vantages of our city, and the spirit and
character Of its citizens They vitalized their
material surroundings, and soon, by the aid
Of newspapers and railroads, put themselves
81 communication with the learning and
St Paul can never again be repeated and
must ever remain the most brilliant in its
the women of St Paul he'd a harvest festival
On this occasion citizens exhibited pic
lures and objects of art collected from the
workshops of different countries The harvest
festival represented the progress and refine
ment of our city; 1t represented the dtscrim-
mating taste Of citizens and their
knowledge of the industries and arts of The
most cultivated nations.
The exhibition we have met to open thi:
evening is Of an entirely different character
and symbolizes new period in our his.
tory. The progressive citizens Of ST. Pau
could not. like school children, be content
TO simply have a secondary knowledge of the
realms of art, science and production; they
were impelled to know these things actually
from real experience. Consequently work
shops, factories and ateliers have gradually
grown up in our city, until today we have
Awakened to the fact that we are we'll ad
fvanced upon the second period OF our histor.
and. entitled to take front rank as a manu-
featuring center, as we'll as a railroad an(
No community can go on indefinitely ant
depend for its growth on the development
OF agriculture in the surrounding country
SlIe puNuluS u rallTOduS, anu the rise II
the price Of real estate. AS the population o
city grows, there must be g. continual i'm
prOvement in the system of production
Where there is great deal to buy thert
ought to be a great deal to sell, and as, IL
progressive community, there is a con
stantly increasing demand for the things mad
away from home, so there must be a pro
portionate increase in home products s,
long as there is not this proportionate IN
crease in home products so long will thu
community be in debt, and so long as thi.
increase of home products is well kept VI
30 long will they be prosperous.
MUST PURCHASE AT HOME.
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