The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-23

Northin in the way Of entertainment
and information has been furnished
Minneapolis real estate men that ap-
proaches the general satisfaction re-
sulting to the participants in the Duluth
trip ending Monday morning.
The Duluth men had a purpose in
their invitation to the. twin city dealers
and it was accomplished. They wished
to awaken the members of the frater-
nifty in Minneapolis and st. Paul to
the enormous possibilities for state
development, and to arouse a tri-city
sentiment that what will help one of the
triplets will result in advantage to the
other two.
In the first place the Duluth men
proved themselves to be past masters
In the art Of being hosts. The deli
cate, smoth manner in which the Lu-
luthians pressed hospitality upon their
visitors SO completely enthralled the
twin city men that they did not really
discover how thoroly they had been
taken care Of until they had time to
think over the junket. The appoint
ments Of the several meals and lunch
cons, the manner in which the two spe-
cial trains were handled and the sure
way in which the hosts brought home
the lessons they wished to impress is
regarded as something remarkable by
those who were permitted to avail them
selves of the invitation.
T.. Mendenhal, j. A. Stephenson, r.
B. Knox, N. J. Upham and Whitney
Wall were the official committee of en-
tertainment. Yet so unassumingly was
their work done that they would not
have been discovered had their names
not been included in the newspaper &C
counts of the several affairs. TO cap
the climax individual members of the
Duluth Exchange invited guests for
private expeditions during the only va
cant place on the two-day program
Sunday morning. R. B. Knox took a
party all over the harbor and into the
dock slips, which included William
Henry Eustis, J. B. Eustis Of Mime
apolis and others. G. c. Harrison and
r. R. Dunn SELECTED another party for
w. M. .Pr1ndle and others did little
entertaining themselves.
Were an Inspiration.
While the immense fund Of Informal
ton attained by the tourists on the
trip the first day thru the range, and
on the even better excursion of the
er company's development work, will
always be a source of thought and
pleasure to the Minneapolis men, moth
Ing seemed to impress them like the
Cokefalrs. The Cokefairs, father and
son, are back Of the water power devel-
opment. AS the story of their indomit-
able energy and their well-earned sue
cess was learned piece by piece the
minneapolis representatives were seized
with an impulse to do great things
themselves, and to return to their own
city girded for hard work for the de-
yelopment of Minnesota as step in
doing their part to secure for Mime
apols It's share of the result.
When @. G. Cokefair had made his
simple and telling address at the Sat
urday evening dinner, tremendous
ovation followed. On, the second dav,
upon the impromptu expression Of
thanks to the promoter of the great
enterprise, their guests were impressed
with the breadth Of manner in which
the father and son acknowledged that
the one without the other would have
failed.
The tale Of this great work is like
a fairy story. F. A. Cokefair. the
young engineer, discovered the golden
opportunity, to, develop a water power
which should be Of use to the twi1
cities as well as Duluth. G. c. Coke
fair, the older promoter, prepared t.
finance the proposition. The son pegge6
away at specifications for years, anG
in the six seasons that have passed
since the inception of the plan thu
father has again and again surmountei
apparent defeat, as time after tim,