The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-05-04
A FEW OF OUR
FOLKS ABROAD
Chance Meetings and RAM
bling Notes of a Little
Journey.

Coming home from the cities with
a business man of Redwood Falls for
a seat mate the other night, the talk
worked round to comparison OF
the possibilities Of family and social
life in Redwood Falls as against the
larger opportunities in some respects
In the big centers. 1t did not take
long to arrive at an unanimous YER
dict that for Redwood Falls citizens
and fathers, Redwood Falls was all
to the good in the comparison.
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Thursday morning the writer took
a morning constitutional up the hill
at st. Paul to the site Of the great
cathedral now rising from it's found
atoms, just above the Selby tunnel.
At that hour we were obliged to
dodge and jostle a great procession
of the city's workers in the praffes-
slonal and office line mainly-the op-
eratives in the manufacturing lines
live in other sections Of the city.
But even in this we'll dressed crowd,
the trail of the serpent of money
worship was plain enough in many
strained and unhopeful faces to be
seen in this procession. Not any
city life for us.
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Returning on our morning walk
by way of the state capitol, the sight
Of that once snowy white structure
turned our thoughts to reflection
Of what the smoke tainted air Of St.
Paul must mean to resident. The
spring houseclaning has not yet been
done on the state house and it looks
tough. Occasionally contractors go
over the marble pile and rub it down
to its pristine whiteness, but this
does not last long. In fact, it hard
ly seems worth while to leave any
thing intended to be white in the
open air in these manufacturing
towns unless it can be Numbered
once or twice week. As it isn't
feasible to do this to the big capitol
building and quite a number of 9TH
er show buildings in the state me-
tropolis. they might as we'll be built
Of abode or wood SO far as beauty
Of exterior goes, and the big new
St. Paul, the pride Of its citizens,
will sooner or later take on the hue
Of foundry chimney.
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But the worst feature Of the smoke
nuisance is not its disfiguring effect
on architectural beauties. How |
abominate that smoke-tainted air
after living in the unadulterated
ozone of Redwood Falls. Of late
years it is orly a question Of how and
how soon to get away from it. At
noon Of my first day there / did as
on one or two previous occasions,
found a Rondo-Maria car and sailed
up to the end Of that line near the
Indian mounds and embracing park.
Commanding a beautiful view of the
city and river and high enough to
command also breathing supply Of
untainted air, I know Of no more ac-
cessible refuge from the heat and
dust of the down town district. One
can take book along and take real
rest on the well kept turf. with
abundance of shade and chance for
2 refreshing supply of ice cream in
the open air near the mounds and
only ten cents for the trip and five
cents for the refreshment.
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Going by the little park near the
post-office at st. Paul at noon a man
with somewhat grizzled but friend |
~ face rose from the foot Of one Of
the trees in the park, where he had |
been discussing an apparently well
filled dinner pail. a. usual, we
couldn't tell the mans name. but
had to lamely say that he looked a
whole lot like Redwood Falls To us,
a. he gripped our hand. = John
Grady" he said, and we gave him
another grip, and told him that we