The Saint Paul globe., 1902-02-28


which will pay the memberships dues In
the national association. This proposition
mas oeen under the consideration OF the
eAecusive committee for some years. and
until the association reached its present
SIZE II was considered to be too expen-
sive.
among the resolutions adopted was one
lhoorsing Gov. Van SAINTS position with
reference to the railroad merger.
AN lnvltation was received from the
american Grass Twane company inviting
the association to inspect the plant. Spe-
clal cars will be provided. and the mem
pers VIII leave the Ryan hotel this after
noon at 2 o'clock.
banquet al Ethe Ryan,
Last night the hardware dealers sat
down to banquet lin the Ryan hotel
dining room. There were 325 members
present at the spread filing the entire
room For the timer being the retailers
lald aside all thoughts of trade piracy,
throat-cutting methods, department
stores and catalogue houses, and applied
their best efforts to the consumption OF
the dainty viands before them. Hopes
Ladies orchestra furnished the music J..
f. Mcclure, Of ST. Paul, acted as toast
master
After the removal sof the covers there
was long list Of speakers, but as their
remarks were brief and to the point they
were all enjoyed.
One of the principal speeches was that
of II. p. Hall, and the POSTMASTER. in
introducing him referred to him as the
secretary of the Minnesota board OF
managers for the Pan-American exposi>
ton at Buffalo, who had rechristened
the state as the Bread and Butter State
In responding, Mr.. Hall said in reply
to the postmaster, that the great sue
cess of Minnesota at that exposition was
not so much due to himself and his as
sociates as to the fact that we had a
state already the peer of any state in the
Union and soon destined to be the SUI
perior of any. Minnesota was the only
state that ever received mention, as a
state, for it's educational exhibit, and We
obtained not only mention, but a gold
medal and the intelligent faces he saw
before him showed the reason why. Con-
tinuing, Mr.. Hall said
When these great ships now being
built in Connecticut, with others to fol-
low, to ply between Seattle and the
Orient, together with the great railroad
development now in process, are per-
fected, the trade of 500, 100000 of people,
over one-third of the population of the
world, will be made tributary to Minne>
sofa. When we educate the Chinese to
stop eating rats, the price of wheat in
Minnesota, which is only one item of
our products, will be 25 cents bushel
higher than it is today and the 80, COO
barrels of -four We manufacture annual
ly will be advanced in value at least one
dollar per barrel. Every acre of land
in the state will be increased in price
and from being the peer we will be the
superior of any state in the Union.
expect to live to see 1O,000,000 population
in Minnesota, and many in the sound of
my voice will live to see it reach 5000,
OO0."
Mr.. Hall congratulated the association
upon it's organization, saying that no
man could be mean and marrow who
mingled with the world as they were do
ing. He congratulated them upon meet
ing in the grand city of st. Paul the
home Of the merchant princes of the
Northwest, not only in the hardware
trade, but in all other lines. Princes not
in the matter of wealth, but princes in
their business methods.
The following also spoke:
President. w. FL. Tomlinson, LIE Sueur;
r. A. Kirk, st. Paul. president of the Ma
tional Hardware Jobbers' as ociation;
George w. Cope, associate editor of Iron
Age; H. P. HaaA Trade Journal; A. It.
Stebbins, Rochester; c. F.. Ladner, ST.
Cloud; Jesse Gregg. st. Paul; H. S.
Cleveland, Minneapolis; A. c. Hatch, Bat
tie Lake; w. A. Barto, Long Prairie; j.
P. Watson, Marshall; F. E. Hunt, Red
Lake Fails; B. w. How, Sauk Rapids
George F. Welles, Duluth; H. Q. Roberts,
Minneapolis; G. d. Parmele, Rochester,
j. l.. Brink, West Concord; C. N. Fer
gusSon, Chatfield; T Peter Nelson, Red Wing;
Spence, Aurora, ILL.,; W. /. Nolan, Min
neapolis; AL Flournoy, st. Paul