Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-11-05


The Newburgh celebration not only walked up
old things for the day, but may wake up others
worth thinking of, albeit of little moment IN
themselves. The Newburgh celebration went
hack to the end of the last century and to the
sa,lv part of the present one The settlement
Of Cleveland was made in 1896 1t rejoiced then
in population of four persons. Within lew
wears they added so to their numbers that they
counted eight or ten; and SO they kept on IN
ercssing till in 1925 they counted up to the al
most incredible sum of five hundred in Cleve-
land, and one hundred across the river. In
June, of that year, DEWITT CLINTON, then Gov
sraor of New York, came to Cleveland in the
fast and staunch steamer q" Superior" so called
probably because she would go six miles an
hour in calm weather, and had no superior, BE-
ing the only steamer above the Fails OF Niagara
CIV CLINTON was on his way to Newark 10
mt in the first spade in the construction of the
Oaio Canal, on the 4th Of July, 1925, in the
presence Of the magnates and of the people OF
the State. Not only were the magnates of Ohio
present., but the magnates of Wall Street who
70 * our first Canal loan of 100000, and who
wanted to see for themselves If we were likely
70 use tI.eir money judic;ously The magnates
and money Lenders are all beyond this worlds
ken, we believe, excepting ALFRED KELLEY,
then and long afterward one Of the Canal Com
nlissioners and it may be well said in this con-
rection that the Ohio Canal, from Cleveland TO
ba anl
made and completed within the original estI-
,aates of cost As the magnates have "shuf-
fed off this mortal coil, so have the rank and
i.le mainly, for thirty-three years, the life OF
generation, have since come and gone.
In process of time, to wit, on the 4th July,
1897 that portion of the Canal from Akron to
Cleveland, was finished, and Canal feet, Of
boats brought from the Erie Canal, was to come
freighted again, with the magnates of the State,
and the people from the Portage Summit, Ak
ron, to Cleveland, and did come and were ush-
cred in by the ringing of the Academy bell, on
the steeple of the old School house, on st.
CHR Street, between Bank and Seneca, and by
the thunders of three FOUNDER swivel on the
river bank, in rear of the present American
House Cleveland has never seen proudeT
anniversary than was that of 1927. The great
questions of the day were solyed-water would
run down hill, especially from the Portage
Summit, 400 feet above the Cuyahoga. Flour
could be brought by Canal instead of through
the mud, and in place of two dollars and a hall
we could for all time buy it at two dollars; and
then men and women could travel luxurIously
with speed and safety.
Collisions were not fearef-the idea of get
ting off the track had not been dreamed Of
three miles an hour was fair speed for men not
in hurry TO get through this wOrld-the ia
BILE was well furnisl ed-the berths II inches
wide-sheets clean and bed-bugs obsolete
Why not then rejoice in Cleveland on the ac'
complishment of all this aud the people said
Amen.
A grand dinner was served at BELDEN's
owned by n H. MERwIN, on Superior street al
the head of Water, and the magnates and tho
peopIe partook, and a merry time they had, Iol
Champaign flowed much more freely then tnal
did the ,Cuyahoga One Melancholy incident
only interfered with the merry crowd E1-uoV
WoRTH1NGroN was one ofthe Canal Commission
ers, and at a meeting of the Board some weeks
before, he was deputed to 60 to New York on
business pertaining to the Canal, and was te
meet his associates at Cleveland at this time tc
which the Board adjOurned-and the engage
ment was in one sense fulfilled.
Gov WoRTHIYGToN left his home IN Chll-
licothe, reached New York, was taken sick and
died there, and while his CO commissioners were
dining the Superior arrived with his remains
to which due respect was paid. But we have
made long prelude to the point we had in
view when beginning this memorandum of past
events.
Among other items in the programme was
Ball IN the evening, and We now give copy oi
the printed invitation which seems Miraculous
Iy to have escaped for a long time the ordinary
fate of such missiles Ii is nearly tac smile