The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-04
Mr.. LOWRY HEARS
MORE OF ST. PAUL
CAPITAL CITY BOOSTERS MORE
ACTIVE IN SOUTHWEST.
Minneapolis Traction Magnate Is on
His Way Home, His Health Regained
After a Long Sojourn in Arizona
Just Missed the Horrors Of the Cali
fornia Earthquake.

Minneapolis travellers must Join the
"Get Busy club. st. Paul boosters
are more active in the southwest than
are the ENJOYS of Minneapolis, says
Thomas Lowry, who is returning home
by way of Chicago after a winter in
Phoenix. Ariz.
His cheeks once more painted with
cleaning with their wonted brightness,
and his smile of former days returned
to welcome and cheer all who come
within his presence, Mr.. Lowry will re-
turn to Minneapolis tomorrow, quite a
changed man from what he was when
he landed in Phoenix, Ariz., five months
ago. And Mrs. Lowry's friends will
scarcely recognize her, so rejuvenating
to her has been the Arizona air and
water and general environments. She
says she has not felt as well in ten
in highest praise of Phoenix when in
tervieweds by The Journal at the
Auditorium Annex in Chicago today.
The couple will leave Chicago for Min
neapolis tonight. They stopped over
in Chicago for couple of days to-
chat with friends and fill few social
obligations. ~
= Back to Business.
= AS far as business is concerned, Mr..
Lowry said he completely banished all
thoughts from his mind when he left
Minneapolis on his winter tour, ami
he does not intend to resume thoughts
of it until he breathes Minneapolis at
mosphere again.
.:t'The- climate of Phoenix has proved
most beneficial to both Mrs. Lowry and
myself said MI. Lowry. ."Phoenix
is very inaccessible city, but when
once you reach there it has charms
about it, and undoubtedly the climate
as any in the country.
But here's a strange thing. When
I first went to Minneapolis, in 1867,
do you know there were ten persons
who went there for tubercular troubles
where one goes to Phoenix for that pur-
pose now? It is the truth, notwith-
standing the fact that Phoenix is now
regarded as one of the greatest resorts
in the country for consumptives. It
used to be that Minneapolis and Colo
RADIO Springs were regarded as the great
recuperating centers for tuberculaM suf
ferers.
But now, strange to say, people go
from Minneapolis to Phoenix. for the
! same trouble which MINI eapolis air was
| once supposed to heal. Why the
change L cannot explain.
Noted in the West.
"Nothing surprised me more on my
trip than to notice the wonderful pro-
gress the city of Los Angeles is MAX
ing. Here is a great center that is go
ing to surprise people some day It's
| building progress is not going short of
phenomenal. and it's magnificent city
+, splendidly built and brim full of en-:
terprise. Los Angeles lacks about 1OO,,
600 persons of having as much popula,
ton as Minneapolis, but a stranger
would take it to be about twice the size
of Minneapolis. ',@" r.
81 was nearing Los Angeles on the
day Of the earthquake. There was
great excitement there, and in the sur
rounding, districts. The conditions in
San Francisco must have been appalling
from what I have heard.
minneapolis has quite a. reputation
in the sections I have visited, an6
everybody thinks the city has splendid
prospects, but believe I heard more
about St. Paul than Minneapolis, anc
people whom have seen from St. Paul
during my absence, have given nj
tons there and the prospects: I an
very glad to see St. Paul picking up a.
it Is. Both Minneapolis and St. Paul
however, have a great future, as is pro
claimed by their natural location; by
the nature of their commerce and b11
the enterprise Of the people composing
their populations. &