The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-10-07
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st. Paul. Mimi, Oct. 7.-One OF the
first questions asked by every new
conner to the Twin Cities is: when
will st. Paul and Minneapolis be COM
bined into one large city,"
Some persons there are in the two
cities who will answer the question
with the one word. Never" Others
say 1t 10 bound to come some day but
not soon. Still there are those who
believe the time Is not far off when
Minneapolis will have one great city
with q population of 100000 or more.
Once upon time there was a riv-
airy between the two cities that bord-
cred upon the bitterest enmity. Such
feeling has been gradually fading
you seldom hear a st. Paul man say
Ing anything against Minneapolis and
vice versa. It used to be that a com.
edian could get the heartiest applause
and make the hit Of his life II he
sprung joke at the expense of Min
neapolis while playing In st. Paul. He
could cross the river the next week
and put st. Paul in Minneapolis place
and get q vigorous hand. Now such
efforts to win applause on q stage in
either city meet with little or no en-
couragement.
This luminosity between the two cit
les has just died natural death. 1t
grows less and less each year. Some
time ago the newspapers Of the two
cities kept the feeling up. There was
bitter rivalry between them. Seldom
. day passed that the editorial and
news columns didn't contain slaps at
the rival city. This Is all thing Of
the past. II there happens to be q
crime wave In Minneapolis such as
the st. Paul newspapers make no
more mention of 1t than they would
OF the same condition In their own
bailiwick. Minneapolis shows st.
Paul the same courtesy. The st. Paul
Pioneer Press Minneapolis office Is In
the Minneapolis Tribune building.
The Minneapolis Tribune's st. Paul
headquarters are in the building occu-
pied by the Pioneer Press and Dis
patch.
Fasteners remember how New
York and Brooklyn used to fight be-
fore they became Greater New York.
Neither wanted to give up its name.
II ever St. Paul and Minneapolis came
to the point on the consolidation ques.
ton 1t Is likely that there will be a
split over the name. The managing
editor Of st. Paul newspaper. how
ever. Is authority for the statement
that they'll just call 1t the Twin City
and let II 60 at tha." But there are
others who do not share In his opin.
lon. st. Paul people naturally would
want the greater city to be known as
st. Paul. Over in Minneapolis they
would want to cling to their own
name. The two cities could not be
consolidated without an act Of the leg.
islature. It probably would mean the
consolidation OF two counties as well
a. St. Paul II the seat Of Ramsey
county and Minneapolis the seat Of
Hennepin county. To bring such q
proposition before the solons Of the
state probably would make the hard
est fight the Minnesota Legislators ev.
er took part In. Another obstacle ID
that st. Paul IL the capitol Of the
state. This. the st. Paul man will tell
you. Is why the name. should consoli
dalton ever come. must be ST. Paul
This argument seems pretty strong.
Il would require much changing Of
laws. but still those who favor q con.
solidation say . plan could easily be
prepared.
OF course the business rivalry be.
tween the cities II keen. but 1t Is nc
more noticeable now than 10 the fight
for business between Cincinnati and
Cleveland. or Chicago and st. Louis
within the last few days special trains
were run out OF the Twin Cities carry.