The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-17

At the Commercial club last night
| 125 real estate dealers from Duluth,
Minneapolis and st. Paul gathered to
a banquet rendered by the members
| of the st. Paul Real Estate exchange.
1t was the first occasion of the kind
upon which these men whose business
| is so vitality akin to the progression
| of a city's interests, had met together.
| Nothing of business was spoken DUR
| ing the evening. 1t was gathering of
| 125 men whose interests were the same
| but who made it an occasion of good
| fellowship and a means of knowing one
| another's personalities and interests
better, and not the occasion for bust
| ness discussion.
The feast was a substantial one,
| served in the banquet room of the
| Commercial clubs quarters. The after
| dinner flow of eloquence which fol-
| lowed was of a character to verify the
| assertion that real estate men are
| good takers. The programme of toasts
was reinforced by a few laymen who
were good, but the ability within the
craft was declared sufficient of itself.
The Duluth guests had arrived early
! in the afternoon as had a greater por-
! ton of the Minneapolis guests, coming
| to the city, as they returned after the
banquet, in chartered car.
POSTMASTER is Apt
The guests assembled for the ban
| quet at o'clock in the evening and
| after full justice had been done to the
viands that satisfy the physical man
/ William c. Read opened the flow Of
mental satisfaction. Mr.. Read was
very happy in his position as toast
master. He introduced every speaker
with story which had the two essen
| tials of a good story-newnesS and hui
mor-and an apology which he made
| for himself was voted out of order
when he made it at the close of the
toast programme.
Mr.. Read first introduced L. G.. Hoff-
man, president of the Commercial
club. Mr.. Hoffman responded with a
welcome from the Commercial club to
| the visitors. He emphasized the i'm
| portance to the community in the pos
| session of wide awake real estate men,
here deity inserting his conclusion that
| st. Paul was amply blessed.
Luther Mendenhall, president of the
Duluth Real Estate exchange respond
ed upon behalf of the Duluth guests
to the welcome extended by Mr.. Hoff-
man. He spoke of the pleasure which
the delegation had already experienced
In the visit and expressed his wish that
many more such gatherings might take
down to the serious discussion of the
important question confronting the
Minnesota dealer in real estate.
Talks on Drainage
More attention should be paid, and
Immediately" said Mr.. Mendenhall, ito
the drainage of low lands in the upper
portion of the state and the advertis-
ing for sale of those lands. Every real
estate dealer should push this matter
of SO much Importance with his repr
resentative in the legislature with a
firmness of purpose and persistence
that some speedy action will be taken.
There are lying idle thousands of acres
of the finest land in the world. 1t
rushing across Minnesota to get into
the DakotaS or into Canada"
Mayor David Percy Jones of Mime
apolis, real estate dealer, was ex-
pected to be present to respond to the
welcome of President Hoffman, upon
behalf of the realty men of the Mill
City, but he was detained. Charles L.
| Sawyer spoke in the mayors stead. He
| congratulated the st. Paul members
and thanked them for their enterprise
! in bringing about the gathering of the
| evening, for, he said, the three cities
| represented were possessed of many
Identical interests which would be i'm
| mensely benefited through united eff
| forts upon the part of the various BUSH
ness organizations which they pos
| Sessed.
Minnesota is a great COSMOPOLITAN
state; great domain superiority sit
uated in the lay of her land, the ex-
ceiience OF her productions, the integ-
rlty and energy of her citizens. She
has made a real minister of the United
states to Sweden. She has taken a
Norwegian resident and made him a
senator. She has honored a man who
at 10 was barefooted youngster strug-
/ enng with indomitable courage to pro-
| vide support for his mother; who con-
tlnued the fight begun thus early with
| strength and bravery unabating into
successful young manhood. She made
MN the governor of the state. And he
Is making good one" 9i-oe
Applause Is Loud
This graphic reference to Gov. John
| son brought forth q storm of cheers
and the speaker, Z. L. Millar of On
luth, publisher of the Duluth Trade
News, was obliged to stop a full two
minutes before the evidences of Gov.
Johnson's popularity with the realty
men mad subsided sufficiently for him
to continue.
Mr.. Millar was speaking in response
| TO the toast proposed by Toastmas ter
Read Minnesota" And he grew fair
ly eloquent as he painted in glowing
| words the present of the state and the
future which he saw in store. He ran
IDLY introduced statistics to prove his
summary of the present and he pointed
10 the wealth of land and minerals vet
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