Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-03-05

Failing In an effort to persuad
MINNEAPOLIS to meet ST. Paul in
joint conference to settle the impo1
tant questions raised by the Armour
site contest G. NJ. Griggs, chairman 0
the St. Paul advisory committee. has
been forced to address an open lettel
to the people Of Minneapolis. =. Mr.
Griggs was for FIVE years surerintend
ent of amusements at the state fail
and Is we'll known to every stoskmar
and horselnan in the Vest.
His letter demolisEas the mass Of
representation which has clouded
st. Paul's attitude and is considered
the best statement yet made on the
entire question. The contention that
st. Paul seeks to drive the Armour
plant from Minnesota is shown in its
fullest absurdity in this letter, which
reads as follows:
TO. THE PEOPLE OF MINNEAP.
OILS:
As chairman of the ADVISORY
COMMITTEE OF the business mensof
st. Paul, appointed to discuss the mat
ter CT the location of the Armour pack.
ing plant. it possible, with an equal
number of Minneapolis business men,
begyto submit for your attention the
following Nets:
On Tuesday, Feb. %, visited Mime.
apolis In order to arrange such meet
ing. I called upon Mr. Westlake. sec.
1etary of your Commercial club, and
on looking over the list of committees
of that club selected the advisory
committee as having the personnel
before whom We should like to be
neard. The next day I received the
following letter:
THE Commercial Club, Minneapolis,
- Feb. "a, 1909.
''Mr. 9. Nj. Criggs, St. Paul, Mimi;
Dear Sir: submitted your sug.
gestion for a meeting between the
committee of citizens of which you
are chairman and the advisory COM
mittee OF our club, to confer in rela-
ton to matters pending in the legis.
lature affecting the Armour packing
Industry, to our board of directors to-
day.
"While the members Of the board
hesitate to decline to arrange for such
. meeting they feel obliged to do so
for tie reason that there seems to be
no definite purpose In such confer
ence. All questions entering into the
Armour location and its effect upon
these cities were thoroughly investi.
gated by us before we entered into an
agreement with Armour & Co. and we
tksn became satisfied that the pro-
posed plant would neither endanger
health nor be Objectionable to the
senses of the people of either of these
cities.
IF any suggestion be made on some
c11h
board might feel differently upon the,
matter. Yours very truly,
"E. J. WESTL4AKE,
"Secretary."
Having failed therefore to secure
hearing with the representative bust
ness men of Minneapolis we have de.
cided to speak to the people them
selves.
VCn are vitality concerned in this
matter. The commercial benefits to
your citizens are great and we do not
intend In any way to disparage them
The commercial advantages which
would accrue to US from the proposed
location are by no Ii cans small, but
there are many other phases of this
subject which we do not believe you
have considered and which have not
been fairly presented to- you.
It has been drilled into you that q
modern, up-to-date" packing plant is
odorless We ask you to show US one.
1t Is q physical impossibility, not only
to show one of the past or present,
but to build one in the future, abso-
Iute!y odorless. It has been cited to
you that the packing plants In the
heart of New York city, Philadelphia
and Buffalo are odorless. They are
the nearest things to the theoretically
odorless plant, but they are not pleas
ant to the senses just the same. They
are very different plants from your
proposed Armour plant and this i'm
portant fact is carefully concealed
from you, viz: THAT THE STOCK !
RENDERING PLANTS AND |
ALL THE INTENSELY OBJECTION
ABLE DEPARTMENTS AND FEA-
TURES OF THE REAL PACKING
HOUSE INDUSTRY ARE DIVORCED
AND MAINTAINED MANY MILES
AWAY FROM THESE DOWN TOWN
ESTABLISHMENTS, WHICH ARE
REALLY UP TO DATE ABBAT-
q Do not be deceived In this matter.
No packing house plant with all its |
Illied industries punched together,
md it, immense STOCK YARDS
Hose at hand--no really great plant |
Iuch as Armour's at South Chicago.
3 even Swift's at South st. Paul. |
m possibly by any stretch of imaxt
lation be prOn0unced cdoriess.
Think Of the trAinl0ads Of cattle.
heep and hogs brought together at 4
Qdat txa An1 4 hall miles -anix from