WHEN visitors to Minneapolis are shown through its magnificent residence districts and driven over its beautiful parkways and boulevards and are then taken to the business section and shown its handsome warehouses and great office buildings, the very first inquiry they make, after their exclamations of pleasant surprise are over, is: ” What is the foundation of all this? -what is there behind it? ” The reply invariably is: “ Flour and lumber, ” and the visitor is then taken down to the milling district and shown the path which Minneapolis trod to reach the summit of her fame and the grandeur of her glory.
Art Glimpses of Minneapolis, the City of Homes: for the Better Exploitation of the Beauties of Minneapolis
-Minneapolis Times Newspaper Co.,1898.
