Going east on Sixth street you will notice an array of electric lights, make the entire street nearly as light as day. It was through the energy of the Sixth street merchants that these grand illuminations were first started; and now we have most of Seventh street, Robert street from Fourth to Eighth and Jackson street and a portion of Third street, near the Union Depot, added to the illuminated district.
An evening visit to these streets should not be omitted. The three blocks on Sixth from Wabasha to the Ryan Hotel on Robert street, are lined on both sides with first class retail stores. At Sixth and Robert, the oldest clothing house. the Boston One Price Clothing House. Opposite the Ryan Hotel is the Mannheimer store, one of the oldest dry goods houses, a store fully equal in extent to some of the best houses in New York or Philadelphia, well known throughout the state for its fair dealing.
-Picturesque Saint Paul: Unrivaled for Beauty and Situation
by an Old Settler
Ramaley Printing Company, 1907
