The Republican journal., 1914-11-05
A Personal Letter from Mime.
apolis.

dpOllS.
The many friends in Belfast of Mr.. w. K.
Morrison, formerly of this city, now of Minne-
apolis, Minn.. will be interested in the follow
ing extracts from personal letter to the edi-
tor of The Journal under date of Oct. 9th:
II have sort of program made up for this
coming year. My daughter graduates from
her school at La Jolla, Calf, in June. l had
intended to take her on a European trip, Nor
way and Sweden and to points in Russia, Wis
iting few days with some Moscow friends
who were out here last year, but l am afraid
European travel this coming year will not be
quite as satisfactory as it has been. so l will
probably take in the San Diego and San Fran
cisco fairs, Yosemite, and plan to take an ex
tensive trip to Alaska, going into the interior.
II shall be going East to the opening of the
Bowl at New Haven in November to see the
Yale e-Harvard game. Although my nephew,
John Pendleton, whom educated, has gradu-
ated, and of course is not playing, his chum,
who played foot ball and base ball with him at
school and college for seven years. bud" Tai
bot, is captain, and we both naturally have a
strong interest in the team. l haven't missed
any of the big games for five years.
"John Pendleton made good at school and
college, being spoken of as 'one of the big
men of Yalesthis year. He nas gone into the
office of the president of large exporting
copper concern in New York to learn the
business with the idea of his being at the head
of some of their companies just as soon as he
can acquire sufficient knowledge of the inside
workings of the business, starting out with
liberal salary.
81 have a cousin of his with me in the busi-
ness, Alton Jackson, another one of Capt. John
Pendleton's grandsons. He has made good
and is vice president and general manager of
the business. Weare up against serious prob
lem, however, of moving. Have been over
year working upon it and have not succeeded
in 10 eating ourselves satisfactorily as yet. al
though our lease is up January 1st. 1t is diff
ficult and almost impossible to get what want
at all with the proper amount Of space and in
the location want l would hardly dare men
tion to my Belfast friends the amount of rent
that will be obliged to pay, and, in fact, am
willing to pay, in order to get what want.
and still rents in Minneapolis are not high as
compared with those in other cities of about
the same size.
minneapolis is growing and while great
deal of building has been done this year. much
has been deferred on account of war situation.
We are furnishing the hardware for the new
twenty story First National Bank-Soo Line
building, to be completed in the spring. Just
finished up the Chas. G. Gates residence, one
of the most expensive hardware jobs that has
been placed in this country. All the knobs,
escutcheons, butts. sash lifts, push plates, etc.
were made in Paris. ornamentation cut by
hand and it was the intention to have this all
il heavy gold plate. what is called Mercury
Gold, and the order was SO placed originally.
but before the goods were manufactured, on
Mr.. Gates death, it was changed to natural
bronze, just cut down the expense about
$4,000
1--WE find some of this hardware has been
taken off the job by visitors who could only get
in after careful sizing up and watching by the
watchmen who are on the job constantly, still
some pieces have been taken off as souvenirs.
Now that the workmen who did this character
of work in France are all at war, We will have
difficulty in replacing this. Mrs. Gates has
been obliged to refuse admittance to every
one.
II expect to spend considerable time in
California this winter after we get settled in
our new business location. My sister, Mrs.
Adams, will be at the Maryland. Pasadena, as
usual.
II have rambled along here more than in
tended, and not writing this with any idea of
your publishing it. although if you care to do
SO you can pick out items that you feel might
be of interest. I always read The Journal as
soon as it comes, enjoy keeping in touch with
the home people. was pleased to see evil
dence of good prosperous conditions as COM
pared with the time when ! was there last. 1t
is too bad you can't have first class hotel SO
that visitors could come there. as they surely
would if there was suitable place for them to
stay. have done a great deal of travelling, es-
pecaly the last ten years and don't know of a
more attractive place than Belfast and sur
rounding country, and Penobscot Bay"