The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-29
Like Boys Once More.

The boyish humory afoat in the crowd
wasn't diminished bit at the lunch
con, which was served on board tables
underneath the long porch roof. Sixty
five men gathered about a table which
was SO long that it gave great per-
spective, hungry from a long water
trip, and savagely attacking the prov
ender, were not in mood for any
thing sober. ..~,s~ &, r..-..>
A team attached to delivery wagon
backed up with a lot of trunks. The
real estate men yelled at the driver all
sorts Of admonitions, like a lot Of
schoolboys. s.tezs-*. r. ). =
"Don It do that,'' said Colonel God
free, who was hustling the colored
walters like an impatient general,
that. team will run away. It has be-
fore.' =, =.
the reckless chorus from sixty-6ve
Threats, graybeards and "cub" deal.
ers shouting alike.
"Look at that crowd" said J. B.
Sutherland from the head Of the table,
as he watched them saving away at
cold meats, and hungri]y slowing away
coffee, pickles, cake. young onions and
hard bread, "and never tell me again
t estata thnss Is 70 activity in the real
I'll see minneapolis is about to be
embalmed,' Joined in another enthusi-
| asst, discussing the coming of the
Armour Packing company: -
| HeOh, that doesn't make any differ
ence,' retorted a Westsider. "North-
| east Minneapolis has been dead long
! while. ~ H~f.r'& ~, 9@I -. r.
This sort Of badinage kept things
. moving and the quotations illustrate the
! spirit of the real estate man when he is
on a jaunt. ~ - =.
r.. ! Out in Natures Temples. ~ ~
After the members and guests had
dragged "a chair apiece to- the impro-
vised sleafy-roofed meeting hall, Presi
i dent w.? Y. Chute in q happy manner
started tho mental feast going and in.
4 PRODUCED Thomas COCHRAN of st. Paul
\ Mr.. Cochran 8 mastery address is print
ed: in full 1on page six of the dramatic
section, this! paper. .&~ zGt COS
l. He beganEbyl expressing the sense Sof
honor he felt in being the only ST. Paul
man invited. Incidental to his talk or
good citizenship and the inevitable cor
porate union Of the sister cities, he re-
tcalled the Twin CITY Commercial club
Eof 1890, which died at the time Of the
unfortunate and inexcusable difference
over the census Of that year.
| HWilliam B. Dean, G. II. Pratt, G. J
Martin and myself, T believe, are the
Esole surviving officers and directors Of
meet Tuesday noon in St. Paul and con
slider whether to revive the Twin City
Commercial club, or turn the funds ove1
to the twin city joint committee Of the
Commercial clubs for the furthering Of
the work Of the old organization.
eff I could do as, G. NJ. Loring has
done for your city and devote the time
that he has to your wonderful park sys
tenn, I shouldn't ask anything bette
8 than to revive the club and be appoint
ed the executive officer, and / believ'
that before reached four score year
and you can Sc for yourselves hov
!, bring about union Of Minneapolis AM
; St. Paul into one Of the greatest cite
Of the world. -. ,:.--@ ~
"Thomas Lowry once said to me tina
there would be four great cities in tn
northern tiers Of states and territories
! as they were then. One Of these, 0
! course, was New York. One was, jus
as of course, Chicago. The third woul
, be on the Pacific coast, either Seattl
! or San Francisco, and the fourth mus
= depend on Minneapolis and st. Paul
! With this introduction Mr.. Cochran
> proceeded with his talk, which
: deemed one Of the classics Of local com
t. mercial literature. II
: Like Real Promoter.
' W, S. Jones introduced himself as
r man who, unknown to most Of thos
! present, had been In the real estat
+ business for twenty-five years. Year
: ago some one, who had undoubtedl
0 tired Of carrying the property, had pre-
$ sented him with business frontage
n the addition which he mentioned bein
9 unrecognized by the board member
d and yet which was only short dis
s lance from where he then stood. H
had refrained from placing his propert
on the market for fear of diverting tn
attention of the public from propertie
z nearer the city and thereby ruinin
, the business Of "Sam - Thorpe and oil
er active members Of the board.
Mr.. Jones, who figured largely
! raising contributions to fund whit
q was used in preparing for the rece1
. entry Of an important business house
: Minneapolis, said that he had four
3 the subject, uOur Contributing TER
!. tory misleading, as he had imagine
when assigned the topic that it referrs
i to the district reaching from the Dee
a & Weber company plant, at Eigh
/ |avenue, south to the implement distric
!. and from the river out some distanc
and that he was expected to nal
another talk such as had assisted
producing the famous $4,000 advert
ing fund Of the board, as well as Il
4 board g contribution to the CONNIE
/ cial project.
o / Speaking seriously, Mr.. Jones to