The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-06
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Among the various points within-the
corporate limits of st. Paul at which it
is recognized there are to be found
| especially favorable conditions for the
conduct of large manufacturing interests,
St. Anthony Park has long been recognize
ed as having a prominent position. The
growth of that suburb, and the splendid
development which has been in progress
for years in its immediate vicinity, both.
industrially and in point of population,
have operated to direct considerable at
tertion toward it.
The proximity of the great railroad
transfer point, the Minnesota transfer,
has added largely to the desirability of
that vicinity, with the result that the in
crease in the number of manufacturing
enterprises in that neighborhood in re
cent years has been little short of phe-
nomenal. The furniture manufacturing
business has made it a center. A dozen
such establishments have already located
there. While there are numbers of other
establishments there, the preponderance
OF the furniture interest is unquestioned.
The prospect has been for some con-
siderable time past that utilized to their
full capacity the special facilities and adj
vantages which the location has present
ed to the minds of the men of that de-
partment of industry, St. Anthony Park
would be certain in time to develop into
a of
ing.
That prospect seems now to be in a
direct way to immediate realization.
| Grand Rapids, as a center of furniture
manufacturing, will do well to look out
for its laurels. The great territory tribu-
tary to these two cities offers to view
a field of commercial operation in that
direction unsurpassed by any ground
commercially covered by any community
in the entire country. To this end the
manufacturers of furniture have come
together and have taken the initial steps
looking to the establishment of aamanl-
moth furniture exchange or salesroom in
which will be represented the different
classes of furniture manufactured by the
several concerns now at St. Anthony
Park, as we'll as those varieties which
may be represented by future additions
to that industry
The immediate need of such structure
has been made plain through tie incon-
venience to buyers of having to visit the !
various factories, situated at different
points. But the ultimate end in view is
the full accommodation of a great and
rapidly growing production in this par
ticular line.
The G o b in its news columns has
set forth with some degree of specification
the plan on which this great furniture 1
exchange scheme is based. The business
association which has undertaken it's COM
pletion represents the manufacturing in
terests of the locality. The manufactur-
ers Of St Anthony Park have at once
come to the front with subscriptions to
the undertaking amounting to $4,000 in
cash: The entire cost will aggregate
$35,OOO and the proposal is now before
the public, for it's consideration, of
placing $4,000 in bonds for the consum
nation of the undertaking
Many of the leading business men and
firms in the city have interested them
selves in the undertaking, and there is a.
substantial assurance already existing
of its early fulfllment. Seven thousand
dollars Of the amount has already been
subscribed and leasing contracts have
already presented themselves which in.
volve good share of the aggregateasum
which will be necessary to render the in
vestment paying one.
This great enterprise is one which VIII
tend in the direction not of the gain f6
the furniture manufacturing interests of
st. Paul alone. It will surely result in a
great general gain to the business stand
ing and interests OF the community. Tfie
example will be followed by other lines
OF manufacturing industry and in other
localities. The great public significance
of the undertaking is the increased mo-
meptum that it will lend to the develops
ment of the grand facilities which the
city of st. Paul offers to those who de-
sire to embark in manufacturing enter
prise of one kind or another -
The Globe takes great pleasure in