The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1850-11-15
How.TowNs Gnow.-t,roihsr Tbon,a,

1
OF theSpring6eid Gazette, is pretty good
att story. and his stories always have "a
knob" to them. Read this, fellow. citizens
Of Fairfield county:
Worcester Of the old Bay State, was
Iat our earliest recollection, q quiet village.
which wealth and intelligence had made
the garden spot of New England. Its
population did not exceed twenty-five
hundred; and long it held on the even
tenor Ofits way. When at last the grass
rendered the streets rather verdant for
The out-lot proprietors. canal WIS pro.
jecled to Providence. This was a costly
enterprise, but following stream where
some manufactures were already intro
duced, with facilities for any exlension,
it was confidently supposed new era
would open in the annals of the village.
II failed utterly and entirely, with the loss
of at least half a million of dollars! The
grass was not less verdanl along the thor.
0ughfares Of the town.
Quite a number years passed away.
when the railroad system was seriously
agitated, and the first move made in Bns
ton was 10 connect the metropolis OF New
England with "llle heart of the Common.
wealth." as Worcester county was flly
termed. The good people. however, gave
il the cold shoulder; they had tried ca.
nal. but this new vagary-they would
none oft.
Boston, of course, built the road. main
ly 80 at least. Time rolled on New life
was breathed into the body corporate;
improvements were projected; the grass
gave way to McAdam; lots looked up.
A second iron way was projected aud
finished, connecting the first with Long
Island Sound at Norwich. The great
stream Of travel between Boston aud
New York soon wore deep aud fruitful
channel. The way was hnw clear. The
Worcester aud Albany railroad, that great
triumph ofart over nature, soon followed
for Boston was stretching her iron bands
tnwards the Great West, to find, first O
market for her goods, aud then, in ex
change, the cereal products To sustain the
operative.
Shrewd business men-and our Yankee
friends are not much behind the times this
way--sonn saw what an admiral point
Worcester presented for factories. They
had no Mad Rieer at their door, but the
waters of every babbling brook were
carefully garnered up. On every hand
branches Of manufacturing industry star
ted into existence. So great was The say
ing OF expense, and so much more con
venient the raw material, thar the chair.
maker aud cabinet maker found it for
their interest To erect workshops in lis vi.
cinty, aud every day you may now see
the great racks vending their way to the
depoiS, from thence tn he transported To
New York aud Boston, there To be warn.
ished aud finished.
Look ut this item alone, aud sea how
the facilities of Communication with every
point will draw aud develnpe new branch
Is trade! -..'
| The bnnt and shoe business had been
no more an item of business ihere than
hrre.-Some years since heavy dealer
assured us that that branch oftrade would
not he less yearly than IA m'tIion Of dOi
lars! .....
We need 60 no farther. The humble
village is alseady the populous city-some
eighteen thousand Inhabitants. Two
more IA lroads have since been finished
one Of them occupying the bed oflhe ca.
nal already alluded to.