The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-15
REALTY men DINE
An Elaborate Banquet Given at the
Minneapolis Club.
SOME NOTABLE ADDRESSES MADE
ST. Paul Representatives Participate
in the Expressions of Conf
dence and Good VIII.

dence and Good Will.
Last nights banquet given at the Min
neapolis club by the Minneapolis Real Es-
tate board was success in every feat
ure. The menu was excellent, the
speeches. pat and wise and the fellowship
I between the St.. Paul and Minneapolis
real estate men present felicitous.
! The St. Paul men were brought over
| and returned in the private car of Presl-
dent Thomas Lowry of the Twin City
Rapid Transit company, Guests were In
vited from among THE prominent financial
men and newspaper men of the city. j.
| Adam Beede came from Duluth to make
one of his fetching speeches. Judge M.
! B. koon was hurried back from seven
months trip abroad to express and re-
ceive congratulations on his home coming.
/ The other speakers, Rev. John E. Bush
nell, D. D.; Senator F. B. Snyder, Thomas
Cochrane, W. c. Edgar, represented the
| interests Of the church, the law, real
estate and the commerce of Minneapolis
and the northwest.
I Following the banquet proper, President
| D. p. Jones introduced the postmaster,
Thomas Lowry. who discharged the duties
of his position in his usual felicltous
1 manner. . .... II.
Thomas Cochrane, of the St. Paul Real
Estate exchange, delivered a mastery re-
ply to the toast "Action and Reaction
After a general survey of the progress or
the world. of the nation and the north
west during the past decade, he closed
with this prophecy
The great city witch is to be in our i'm
mediate neighborhood will be at the geo.
! graphical center Of the continental domain OF
| the United States. 1t will be thus located
at the gateway of that long road over land
and sea, through which must pass not only
%;~~ fr1,, oil yroo fNr
northwest itself, but also that resulting from
the expansion of the oriental trade of the
world ...-
l hazard this prophecy, that within another
decade the expansion Of the trade of the twin
| cities with the orient will seem as marvellous
as the growth of the northwest within the
| last decade seems to us now; and that the
greater northwest itself will rapidly increase
in wealth, in population and in commerce, so
that we shall have again to revise our idea
concerning it and acknowledge that the most
visionary of had not half guessed the
commercial and manufacturing possibilities
of that part of the country in which we live.
The Torrens Law Discussed.
State Senator F. B. Snyder, author of
Minnesota's Torrens law, responded to
the toast THE Torrens Law" Mr.. Sny-
i, der rapidly sketched the history of GUS
tom and statute, recognizing individual
,
fer, and arrived at the conclusion that
land should be as easily transferred from
one holder to another as share of stock
in stock company. He cited, as an ex-
: ample of the clumsiness Of the old sys-
| tenn long in vogue in this country, the fact
that a company recently organized in this
Y city had acquired many thousands of acres
/ of land. The transfer of an acre of tina:
!; land to new owner might require great
t deal of searching of records, possibly ~ac-
l tion by the court, and delays of weeks OF
months before the transaction could be
completed, whereas shares of stock, rep
resenting hundreds and even thousands O.
acres as the property of the company
could be transferred by signing name or
the back Of the stock certificate Mr.
Snyder then showed how under the new
Torrens law, after the state, has regis
= tered the title, transfer may be made al
most as easily as shares of stock may bt
. transferred from one holder to another.
:, Judge Koon, in responding to Hi
Views of Minneapolis Real Estate" ex
= pressed his great pleasure at his return t.
- his home, which seemed to him more DE
v lightful and satisfactory than ever before
He echoed the sentiment of other travel
ers abroad that. nothing is so we'll cal
culated to strengthen love of home, and
particularly, of ones own country, as alb
sence from it for time in other lands
+ The judge expressed. very strong conf
| denCe IN local real estate.
Rev DR.. John E. Bushnell of West
:, minister church. responded to the toast
;, minneapolis as a Church-Go1ng Com
= munity." T h e our regrets tina
"a it has not space to-day to reproduce en-
- tire the wholesome sentiments espresso
- so gracefully and acceptably by DR.. Bush
' nell. He emphasized the Importance Q
=, the home as center of those influence
~ which make for the highest good of tn
~ community. The service of religion l
:. developing right sentiments in the home
,, in building Christian character and fos
- tering the best type of home life, such a
II is found in our own country, works han
in hand with all legitimate promoters {
- commercial prosperity for the genera
IL betterment DR.. Bushnell charmed his lis
teners by his exceeding felicity of expires
sion as we'll as by the earnestness an
force with which he presented the idea
N CO. operation between the church man an
l. the business man to their mutual advant
IF age and the general welfare. = -
20. Kicks without Malice.
~ Mr.. Edgar responded to the toast 9Th
: Kicker" He made a clever discrimlna
T. ton between the kicker and the knoeke
- asserting that the kicker is impelled
~. benevolent motives and kicks for prlr
ciple while the knocker is inspired
malice. He took occasion to kick as
matter of principle against some thing
s. which ought not to be in Minneapolis
among other things, the failure OF: tt
street railway company to provide res
80 sonab1e accommodations for it's patrons
the practice of real estate men in marin
the beauties of the city and depreciatir
the value of real estate by multiplyir
sign boards and real estate signs +
kicked against what he said are Gale
theaters in Minneapolis but which he d.
clared were not theaters, in which CO,
nection he repeated the statement of NJ