The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-19
HAD A SPLENDID TRIP
sT.7PAUL COMMISSION MEN RETURN
FROM THEIR JAUNT TO
NEW AORLEANs
THIS CITY. WELL ADVERTISED

ITO Oil WELL ADvEhlISEU
I Special Car Used to Carry the Local
business Men to the Annual
Meeting of League of Commission
Merchants WAS Wonder All
Along the Line-Pleasure Was
Combined with BUSINESS.
The w1de-awake, enterprising, up-to-
| date business men of ST. Paul have
again added to the commercial fame
OF the metropolis of the Northwest by
speeding across large portion of the
continent in a splendid railway car.
having on either side a huge banner,
ON which was emblaZoned the words
In large characters, "St. Paul Branch
or the National League of Commits
sion Merchants"
Inc car was special one provided
by the Northern Pacific Railway com
pany to carry from st. Paul to New
orleans and return the company of
commission men who attended at the
latter city the annual convention held
last week of the National League of
Commission Merchants. The trip was
completed by the return of the party
10 ST. Paul yesterday morning. and
was most successful in the added
knowledge gained by the members of
the party, in the continual round of
pleasure 1T afforded them and as an
advertisement of ST. Paul as a. fruit
ana produce. market. w
| The following gentlemen were in the
party: J. B. Redpath, president of
the st. Paul Branch of the National
League OF Commission Merchants: ].
=. M uirooney, secretary of the branch;
=: T.. emerson, j. B. Hoxsie, w. A.
Murphy, J. w. Fillebrown, F. r. Yerxa.
AEdfeW Schoch, Louis Michaud, A. A.
Price, Carl Schalhneer John Kaisch-
Wener, II. Baxter c. A. Peaslee. of
Duiuth; y. Connery, of Minneapolis; N.
+: Langford, representative of the
chicago Il Northwestern Railway
company, and r. j., Williams repre-
sentative of the Illinois Central Rail
WY company.
Mr.. Redpath last evening gave The
u OBJ the following account of the
nauonali organization and the excur-
sion:
Inc National League OF Commission
Merchants is an association of the most
feIaDle commission merchants in the
principal cities Of the United States.
ana 1t holds convention once a year.
at which the place of holding the next
T.
ing will be held at Baltimore The oh
Ject of the league is to raise the
standard of commission merchants.
ana none but a reliable and fully re-
sponS1ble person or firm can become
member An application for men,
bership must be- made to the local
braneh, and before the applicant is adj
mltted the local branch must have the
sanction Of all the branches in the
league. st. Paul has ten houses rep
resented in the national league This
Is above the average when, this mar
ket Is compared with others, which
shows that the merchants of ST. Paul
are fully alive and up to date.
AT the convention we get the report
from each branch league Papers of
interest to the commission merchants
are read and everything of value TO
them is discussed.
AT the convention at New Orleans
Mr.. Emerson, of st. Paul, read most
interesting paper, which was publ shed
In part in The G e, on The Prop
er Method of Soliciting Consignments
and What Commission Should Be
Charged It was considered one of
the best papers of the session.
The trip. was originated through the
efforts of. Messrs. Emerson, Hoxsie
and myself We secured special car
from the Northern Pacific Railway
company, and We provisioned it for
TWO weeks holiday. We had a cook
and two porters, which gave us all
the comforts of a home We left the
union depot Saturday evening, Jan. Z.
and went to Chicago by way of the
Northwestern line, arriving there
about O'Clock Sunday morning. The
day was spent in various WAYS. some
of the party attending church, some
visiting the fine arts Institute and
others visiting friends. Sunday even
/ ing we left Chicago over the Illinois
Central line for Memphis, where we
arrived Monday morning Here we
were met by a delegation of commas
sion men, who gave us the freedom of
the city. We were all impressed with
Memphis as a live city in many re-
spects. So far as their retail stores
are concerned, they are not to be com
pared with ST. PauPs. There are no
such stores there as those of Michaud,
Yerxa and Schoch, and they have
much to learn from us In attractive
ness, cleanliness and business meth
DDS generally. -
Among the interesting sights In
memphis were the great cotton COM
press machines, the beautiful park in
the center of the city. in which hun
dreds of tame squirrels froIic around
After enjoying every hospitality in
city on Monday evening, continuing
over the Central line, and arrived at
New Orleans Tuesday morning. What
impressed us most Of all on arriving
there was the entire change of eli
mate. The flowers were blooming. the
sun was bright and warm, and the
grass. was green. We spent Tuesday
In visiting the docks where the fruit
arrives from the tropics. We watched
the steamers discharging their car
goes OF bananas, which was a great
sight to us. We also went aboard of
some OF the fishing boats which had
Just arrived with large cargoes of oys-
ters, and the boys all enjoyed their
oysters fresh from the shell, immense
~. In fact, within a few days after
we arrived the price Of oysters ad-
vanced materially.
we also visited the French marker
and the. old French quarter, and the
United States mint. Every courtesy
was shown us by the New Orleans peo-
| pie In the afternoon we visited the
cemeteries, which are, perhaps, the
most interesting sightin that city. The
immense number of mausoleums in all
their grandeur have the effect of TAX
Ing away the dread or death
The sessions Of the convention occu-
pied Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
and they were full of work, as we com
mission men are full of business. Sat-
urday the New Orleans branch planned
beautiful trip down the river for all
the delegates, and about three-f ourths
of them took advantage of It, How
ever. most of sthe ST Paul boys pre-