Part 3 (1/2)

I helped build the Governor Ramsey which plied above the Falls and up the river She was loaded with passengers each trip going to look over sites for homes I also helped build the H M Rice After the railroad was built, these boats were moved on land over the Falls and taken by river to the south where they were used in the war

I first boarded at the messhouse of the St Anthony Water Power Coht line with the front door of the Exposition Building on the river bank All butter and supplies of that nature were brought a long distance and were not in the best of condition when received, so this e,” and this was the only appellation it was known by in old St Anthony

The first saws apiece, a day

As there were absolutely no places of as One of the first things that was established by thee As there were no sidewalks, a stranger would be run in and have to pay a fine, such as cigars for the crowd, if he was found spitting on the sidewalks Lawyer Whittle was fined two pecks of apples and cigars for wearing a stovepipe hat and so the fun went on, day after day

Mr Welles ran for Mayor and, as there was no opposition, the before s decided to have some A colored man, called Banks, had a barbershop that stood up on blocks The boys told him he must run for Mayor in opposition They told hiht him one which said, ”Down, Down, Down!” and he was to stand in the door and deliver this Just as he got to the last ”Down” these wags put soently turned it over in the sand

It took theain, but in a tohere nothing exciting was going on, this was deemed worth while

If you had half a pint of whiskey in those days, and illing to trade with the Indians, you could get al to the tame buffalo hitched to the Red River carts They seemed to have much the same disposition as oxen, when they were tame

The oxen on the Red River carts were much smaller than those of today and dark colored Theat one time, was about one hundred These carts were not infrequently drawn by cows The drivers were very swarthy, generally dressed in buckskin with a bright colored knit sash about the waist and a coonskin cap with a tail hanging down behind or a broad brimmed hat

In '51 I built athere It was right areatest thieves living They ca not nailed down We used to feed them We had a barrel full of rounds of salt pork By rounds of pork, IIt just fitted in a big barrel Eli Salter was cooking for us One night he had just put supper on the table It was bread, tea and about twenty pounds of pork--about two rounds There were seven of us and just as ere sitting down, four squaws ca, ”All coons look Alike to me,” but at this time all squaws looked alike to us We could never tell one from the other They ate and ate and ate Eli said, ”They seehted with tallow dips, four of the to pick up that pork, each squaw like lightning wet her fingers and put out the candles When we got theether, but not where ere We just charged it to profit and loss

Areatest thief of all He had been for years at a school in Chicago and had been their finest scholar The Indians were all out canoes and found it hard with their tools I had a fine adz and Ed stole it I could notit back I used to feed the chief well and one day I told hi it back” Sure enough, the next day at dusk Ed sneaked up and thinking no one was looking, threw it in a pile of snow about two feet deep We saw hiot it at once

We never kne the chiefa et sos, so I started I had to pass a caoes They had trees across for fra there I was sneaking by, but the old chief sawin to eat I declined hard, saying I had had my dinner, but I knew all the time they knew better I had on a buffalo overcoat and a leather shortcoat inside In the tepee, they had a great kettle of dog soup, as it was a feast Each one had a horn spoon and all ate out of the kettle They gave me a spoon and I started in to eat I did not touch it but poured it inside my inside coat for a couple of times When I left the chief went and picked out one of the thinnest, poorest pieces of venison there was and insisted on usted but did not dare refuse A short distance away, I threw it in the snohich was about two feet deep off the trail Shortly afterward I ht he would notice the hole and find what I had done I watched hian to snoas safe I guess the dogs got it

Mrs James McMullen--1849

Mrs McMullen says: When I first came to St Anthony in 1849, there were no sandburrs They did not coh the town We always thought they brought the You would step into it and it would give and give It would seem as if you never could reach bottom It would tire you all out to walk a short distance We soon had boards laid down for walks Luet, for the mills sawed little and ht No one as building a board house was safe froht he had the sidewalk in his house

When we first built our house I wanted a garden My brother said, ”You ht as well plant seeds on the seashore,” but we did plant thereen stuff I

Whenever the Red River carts ca to the doorlatch I did not want any calls froo squawking by all day Later they used to cae nu with Mr McMullen, one of them stopped by us and I said, ”Oh, see that ox is a cow!”

In '49 or '50 the old black schoolhouse was the site of an election I lived near enough to hear them yell, ”To hell mit Henry Siblee--Hurrah for Louis Robert” If those inside did not like the way the vote was to be cast, they would seize the voter and out the back ould co on the soft sand This would continue until the voter ceased to return or those inside got too drunk or tired to throw hih lumberjacks at these early elections and for the day they run the town

I used always to make twenty-one pies a week One for every meal I had two boarders ere friends of ours Not that I wanted boarders, but these men had to stay somewhere and there was no somewhere for them to stay Each took her friends to help the was hard on me There was no one to hire to work After a very hot day's work, I was sick and did not co I caot my breakfast I set half of a berry pie on the table and went to get the rest of the things When I ca I thought I had forgotten and had not put it on, so set it on again and went for the tea When I caain in the cupboard and the boarder still studying the al to that pie?” He said, ”Keeping it fro et! After this you s the same and you won't be all wore out, we'll only have them for dinner,” and so it was I suppose there were e of St Anthony than there would be now at that reat city of Minneapolis, for it was then a New England village

Dr Lysander P Foster--1849

I came to Minneapolis on the Ben Franklin She was a wood burner and every time that her captain would see a pile of wood that some new settler had cut, he would run ashore, tie up and buy it A passenger was considered very haughty if he did not take hold and help

My father built his house partly of lumber hauled from Stillwater, but finished with lumber from here, as the first mill at the foot of First Avenue Southeast was then completed It had one saw only and so anxious were the settlers for the lurabbed and walked off with as soon as it came from the saw

The first school I went to as a boy of fourteen, was on Marshall Street Northeast, between Fourth and Sixth Avenues It was taught by Miss Backus There were thite boys and seven half breed Bottineaus It was taught arten of today--object lessons, as the seven half breeds spoke only French and Miss Backus only English McGuffy's Reader was the only text book

The Indians were much like white people The Sioux boys at their camp at the mouth of Bassett's Creek were alwaysand playing gaaa handle and heavy sth possible So it farthest beat I suppose what I call ”shi+nny” was really La Crosse

What is noell's Addition was a swamp I have run a twelve foot pole down inbottom

Mr Seco to St