The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-19
LOCAL REAL ESTATE MEN.
SEE GREAT THINGS AHEAD
Tenth Annual Banquet Of Real Estate Board Last Evening Significant
for It's Marked Spirit From Various
partmen Of Trade With One Voice Declare Minneapolis Outlook
to Be Of the Very Best

4 ~ s.ef
time Minneapolis spirit was self interest,
and self interest is a proper incentive to
appeal to. It will win battles and accom-
plish results. It is not dead See the 4
response made to any scheme appealing to 4
the business sense of our business men.
See the investments made by our citizens !
in far Oregon. California, Canada and
Colorado, the strength of our mercantile
establishments, our new buildings.
Would you arouse interest in Mime
apolis real estate and investments therein,
based on its advance in value? Then,
gentlemen, 1t is UP to you to take the
initiative in advertising Minneapolis as
/ have indicated.
IF I read the signs Alright, there never
was a time when the right leader could
SO quickly rally support as now. I take
off my hat to those grand workers of the
genera tion just passing around the corner
whose farsightedness, enterprise and de-
Yotion to this beautiful city made possible
for us the opportunity now existing; but
our faces must be to the future. The fu-
ture Of our country and its possibilities
no man has yet fathomed. Shall Mime
apolis play it's part in the problems and
responsibility, defining authority and may
you and bet true to our responsibilities
as citizens of this our beloved city and
state. and casting9 doubt and hesitation
to the winds, follow In the footsteps Of
that Opportunity which I fully believe
is at our doors, If we but grasp it,,
"The Real Estate Man.
1 1T Wyman was introduced as having
something Of the Rooseveltian strenu-#
osity. His talk was ''The Real Estate
Man." and was fresh and crisp. Compari-
sons with former days when in 1868 Mr..
Wyman made his first 5000 on a lot
bought through w. H. Lauderdale and s.
G. Gale &. Co., was in favor Of the pres
ent, although subscriptions to public
movements are not so free as in former
days when the real estate men were max
ing more money. Mr.. Wyman had just
returned, from Los Angeles and showed
why Minneapolis was happier in not hav-.
ing the real estate craze which is mani
tested in that city and which will have
it's reaction. 4-r.. -. s--.--y. e.r-@~. y
81 Need of Cooperation y
H.. V. Jones' of the Commercial West,
was introduced al the man who had sue
cessfully launched a paper which had not
"died young and which was well worthy
the patronage being given. Mr.. Jones
appeared in the absence Of Judge w. A.
Lancaster who was out of the city. He
emphasized the need of cooperation and
deprecated the opposition shown to the
progress of certain railroads. illustrating
what the effect would be in case the citi-
zens should combine to oppose the erec-
ton of factory by J. r. Wyman, for
| instance. Mr.. Jones placed special stress
| on the growing Importance of Minneapolis
| as a manufacturing center. He had pre-
| pared astonishing figures as to the man
ufactories of the city and as to different
articles made. He had heard in other
cities of Minneapolis being a milling and
| lumber town. Now these classes could
! be taken away and 1t would be little
|, difference to Minneapolis the greatest
manufacturing. city west of the Chicago
except ST. Louis and San Francisco. And
it had attained this importance without
| the advantage OLA nearby coal supply.
| Handsome Souvenirs ~
Time passed rapidly at the banquet
Ebecause each guest could watch the fly
ing minutes on the face of "a souvenir
i desk clock, placed ataeach plate, marked
with the words Minneapolis Real Estate
| Board but given thus modestly by thu
firm of which S. S., Thorpe, chairman o
4 the executive committee of the board, i
4 a member. ,....~ Ill
Guests and Members
! The invited guests were: j,
W; H. Eustis "; L. Harris, a.: Y. Jones,
Egan A. a. Allan, John Lind. George Day
! ton, ". T. Cayan, E., g. Holiday C.. H Ham
4 bin, 4 P. Chute J: W. Hooper. J. r. Thorpe
II. Hallock, Wallace Davis.J. B. Sutherland, B
j ". Lee, E. G. Brown, f.: A.: Smith. H: +
" 5sse r I csap%ee nant
Active AIembers-W. Y. Chute, George p
Rust F.. B. Chute, S. s. Thorpe George 4
Hanson, F. G.. Smith. Walter L.: Badger, F.
james, A.. f., Newhall. Merrill Bartlett, T. A
Jameson, Moore Brothers. j.. S. Porteous,
n. Tabour, W.. A. Eggleston, n: A: Crittender
Il J. f. Eustis, s. n. Findley, Fl. B. GoodnoN
] J. Nick. Thompson, A. f. Tonne, F. Benner v
Ivy. Clark. W. j. Bishopp g. R. Nimmon.
G. 9. TAYLOR J; w., kathbnn' T: J. 5anneE
sprague Charles Gale F. G.. Gross. W. "
Price, George Dartt, P C. Deming, F.. c. GIRL
void, Charles Chadbourne, A. Campbell. F.
e Barney, W b. Boardman, James Mcintyre. "
1 n. Lauderdale, Il. A. Merrill, J. U. Barnes. {
NJ. Morten, F. L. Palmer, W. Fl. futile, H.
Dennis, Clarkson Lindley. G.. W. Wells, E.
Walton, l.. b. Elwood. James Mcmillan, l..
sutherland, Luth Jaeger. & Is