The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-01
to bless our people and those who come
after us, to all future time.
The Infant CITY.

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Judge Gilfllan then told what st.
Anthony was in 1855. It held few
hundred people. There were, perhaps,
a dozen stores, two or three small ho
tells, five small lumber mills, with one
saw each, on the dam from near the
site Of the celebration across to Nicol-
let island. There was one small -four
mill on the west side, grinding 200
b barrels a day, from wheat shipped y. up
the river. There were no railroads, the
nearest station being Galena, Ill. The
only, means of communication was by
steamers during the navigation season,
and in winter by stage coach and the
old Red river carts. The first railroad,
in 1862, connected St. Paul and st.
Anthony, but it was 1866 before there
was direct rail communication with the
graphs, and mails were slow and irreg-
ular. There were three newspapers, the
St. Anthony Express, edited by Judge
Isaac Atwater; the Minnesota Repub-
lican, edited by Rev. G. G.. Ames, and
the Northwestern Democrat, edited by
w. A. Hotchkiss, first started in ST.
Anthony, but in 1855 moved over to
the West Side. All three Of these pio-
neer editors are still living, Judge At
water in Minneapolis, and Major Hotch-
kiss at Preston, MINI. Rev. G. G..
Ames is an honored minister in Massa-
chusetts, and has daughter still in
Minneapolis, whose literary work has
achieved more than local fame. Schools
were few, only two on the East and one
on the West Side. The first graded
school was established in 1857 on the
till 1860, when Judge Gilfllan himself
drafted bill for board Of education.
In 1865 a similar charter was given to
the West Side. While the two cities
were united in 1872, the school systems
were not consolidated into the present
| system until 1873.
| In closing, Judge Gilfllan referred
the meeting today must be subdued by
tahe thought of the number who
fought the fight together in those days,
who have now gone before. This sad
ness is accentuated by the news of the
death of the nations secretary of
state, who Judge Gilillan character
| lied as, "since Lincoln, our greatest
statesman. -
Mayor Jones was then called upon.
He spoke informally of the city's early
days and its growth to present com.
handing position in the northwest
Other impromptu addresses were made
Among them was on by Colonel G. w
Johnson, county treasurer, who spoke
in rather facetious vein Of what he haC
seen. the early days of the university
the frts railroad, the exposition built
in eighty days, etc. He expressed the
wish to live fifty years more and see
what will develop.
Johnson's Hopes.
EEI watn to see,' he said, "tht
Minnesota university of 1855, the me1
it produces, the mark they make il
history, science and civilization, am
the kind of football they play! Ivan
to see a reform administration of Min
, neapolis succeed itself, endorsed am
reelected. I want to live to see tn
bonds on the neew courthouse and cit,
hall paid. I want to see Mr.. Flether
new $3,O00,000 public building locate.
in proper site and completed, and
} 100000 public building on the Eas
Side, too. [ want to see them bot
built of Minnesota stone, and by Min
nesota men, working eight hours a da
at good wages. 1881
II want tot see the City of Mime
apolis embrace: all Of the land til
lakesf, the villages and towns, all tn
boards of education, water, health, pt
| lice and park departments, all tn
, street cars and automobiles and all tn
, people of Hennepin county under on
: Following the exercises IAN informs
reception was held in the Cooley hous,
| Souvenir copies wore on sale of tn
= commemoration poem by Frank {
O 'Brien, read this afternoon at the e,
: ercises 1t contains a number of il
!. teresting half tones Of old days an
: the present, and is sold for the fun
! with which the old home will be fu
: nished and permanently established.