The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-01

still a call for paper and glazed Holland
+ goods, and the Northern Shade company
i has everything that is needed to meet
! the caprices of taste and the changing
fashions
5. 4. Brace Jr. & Co. and D. p Owen
are not yet manufacturing, but their
store houses are filed with staple house
furnishing goods. The former is a son
of the pioneer manufacturer of tue rark
and the latter came from Minneapolis a
year ago and is not sorry he made the
changed, since he has had such an in
crease in business.
The ST. Anthony Park Manufacturers
club was organized just three years ago
and i'll addition 20 the officers named
above, has the following committees;
On Railroads and Transportation e,
Brace, st. Anthony Furniture company;
u. A, Archer, American Linseed Oil com
panyi /. b. Grant, What Cheer Stove
company, and c. H Patterson, McCor-
mick Harvester company On New In
2 dustries-S. E, Brace Jr., H. Schellen-
berger, j. W. Westphal Minneapolis Iron
Stove company, and L. M. Lefilngweu.
Northern Linseed Oil company. On Local
Improvements = T. @. George w Fl
Gruenhagen, c. A. Joerns, American
Folding Bed company. and J. K. Ogden,
Twin City Varnish company
WORK OF THE CLUB.
Since the organization Of the club more
new Industries have been added than
during almost the entire previous history
of the park. The members work together
like one man, without jar, discord o.,
misunderstanding. They all believe that
st. Anthony Park is 'it in the matter
OF manufacturing supremacy. One mem
Der Of the club told the G OBJ g that he
never associated wit
monlous organization, that there was m
d1vidual desire on the part of each to
promote his own business, but this did
not stand in the way of extending a well
come to competitors. The feeling seems
to be that each is anxious to have his
competitor right there. Mr. Brace saws
ne can't expect to sell tables to eyerv-
pody IN the Northwest, and so he will be
glad to have other table factories start
up and make st. Anthony Park a table
center. When dealers are looking for
tables they know where to find them.
That is the feeling, too with those en-
gagged in all branches. And it is this feel
ing that is back of the project to build
an exposition building, a three-story
brick structure, $50 by 200 feet in size
The plans and specifications have been
prepared, stock to the amount of So coo
has been subscribed, and ARRANGEMENTS
are being made to float $4,000 in bonds
making the capitalization S35 00O about
half the amount just expended in the
new Mccormick building, near by. to bo
used exclusively for harvesting machin-
cry.
The new building will have 10000 square
feet Of exhibition surface, and half of
that space has already been taken by the
local factories. 1t will be an improve
ment upon the exposition building used
by the manufacturers of Grand Rapids,
where thirty-seven large factories unite
In showing their wares, besides which
over 200 separate outside lines of furni-
ture are exhibited and sold on the expo
sition plan. Scarcely day passes that
Grand Rapids furniture does not go
through the Minnesota Transfer, and
buyers from the Twin Cities and the
Northwest go to that Michigan city reg
ularly for goods that are being made as
well and as cheaply at the st. Anthony
Park factories The projectors of the
exposition building believe that an ex
hibticn here will not only hold the home
trade, but be a strong factor in drawing
trade not only from the Northwest and
the Pacific coast, but from the territory
cast to the great lakes and beyond
A desirable location has already been
selected a corner site, with a spur track
from the transfer In the rear. While the
present plan only cOntemplates the crea-
ton OF market at this point when
such market is already in existence and
is known by manufacturers to exist at
this point, many new factories FOR the
manufacturing of the various lines of
furniture and house furnishing goods
will necessarily become identified
with industries already established
there, the erection of new fac
tories and manufacturing plans will
naturally follow good many furni-
ture manufacturers in this and neigh
boring states have been looking over the
field here during the last year, and their