The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-18

lty, ana mas uilVen thousands 10 MnucIty anu
irreligion, and into every vice and crime. Its
ascetic gloomy character, keeps the people
from Christian worship and sends them to
other resorts. The churches do not contain
quite half room for the population, and yet
they are not on an average half full. Thus
one-fourth of the people only 60 to church
The chief cause is the Puritanical Sabbath OBJ
servance, which remains legacy Of the folly
Of our ancestors.
The Wonderful Growth OF Western Ci-
ties-Look Mt Cincinnati!
There is much that is interesting in the study
Of the rapid growth of the large cities scattered
through the West, each forming a kind of Sc
cond rate metropolis, and Boosting of its me-
tropolitan resources for amusement and dissi-
patton on small SCALE In the Cincinnati
Prices Curent for the present year is report
of the commerce Of that city which occupies
nineteen columns of one of the daily papers.
We learn some curious statistics from this docu-
ment, showing the progress of Cincinnati since
its foundation, in 1888, as village, with the
streets cut through the forest and their names
marked on the trees.
1t was many years subsequent to this date,
however, that Cincinnati began to make its
mark as city, having been incorporated as
such in the year 1919, just forty years ago.
Since then it has been steadily increasing in
commerce and general prosperity.
We learn from the report referred to that for
the year 1889 " the general increase in COM
merce is quite remarkable. The increase in
the grocery trade will attract attention. The
imports of coffee increased IL per cent, of SUI
gar 30 per cent, and of molasses 60 per cent
We imported about one-sixth of all the sugars
made in Louisiana, and one-fifth of all the mo-
lasses. One-eighth of all the coffee imported
into the United States from Brazil came to this
market, and Notwithstanding these heavy i'm
portations they were not in excess of the de-
mand, which has been large and steady through
out the season.
An abstract Of the imports and exports of
the city shows that increase is the rule and de-
crease the exception. The increase in the fol-
lowing articles is quite marked, and tells well
for the commercial progress of Cincinnati
cent? of horses hundred and forty per cent of
moasses sixty one per cent Of dried fruits one hundred
and sixty per cent The imports Of wool have increased
one hundred and ffy-fve per cent; of wines, ninety
three per cent? Of manufactured tobacco ninetysix per
cent OF potatoes two hundred ana sixty nine per cent OF
barrel pork seventy cent OF horses one hun
drcd and cent OF dried fruit one hundred
and ninety per cent and of boots and Shoes hundred
and four per cent.
show so prosperous a record, for we are told
that, "On the basis Of short crop, a sweeping
speculative movement prevailed during the fall
of 1858, and extended through the packing sea-
son. The pork crop Of the West was bought
at the highest average price ever paid for it in
any previous year; and the crop turning out
to be ample, the decline was large and the
losses extensive and general"
The trade in whiskey, linseed oil, oats and
potatoes, showed the same fate in measure as
that in pork. The increase in all branches of
manufacture during the last twenty years has
peen very considerable, the figures showing
that the value of the various departments in
1910, was sl7,7s0,O33; in 1850, $54,55O, l34;
and in 1860, Sl12,254 900; having more than
doubled in the last ten years.
As an evidence, not alone Of the mercantile
but of the intellectual advance of Cincinnati,
we refer to the large growth Of the book trade:-
The whole number Of volumes published in this city
the past year estimate at 000 The educational
works alone published here supply nearly all the public
schools in the entire West The which gives the
school books published in CINCINNATI such wide
reputation and such permanent footing, is their superior
character In 1840 the total value OF all the books print
cd in Cincinnati annually $500 900; in 1850 ii had
reached 81 $50 600: now, from reliable data place it
81, 100000 There are fifty nine establishments
q N in
are publishing houses five or six OF them on most
tensiye scale.
1t is matter of regret that the report is not
able to give us any accurate estimate of the
dry goods trade. 1t would be an interesting
item at the East The writer, however, under
this head throws out few suggestions which
may be valuable to some of our New York
merchants who open long credit accounts with
Western houses. He says
There is large number it is true, who have to go
the East to buy for the very strong reason that they can
that there many merchants doing business in various
towns in the Western States who can buy much dry
goods in Eastern cities they please and yet whose
dit at home in many instances second Glass; and in not
few absolutely worthless. The with which, and
upon what slender basis credit Of fifty to one hundred
thousand dollars be established in New York, has
become proverbia out West and bears striking contrast
with the care and scrutiny used by merchants, and
the consequence is the class Of customers who buy here
Is iar better than those who ego East.
The progress in trade during the past few years may be
inferred from the number OF houses engaged in the whole
sale and retail departments each year. which fol-
lows
Number Of Houses
Ieofs Wholesale. Retail
iseo. Observation-Disclosures. 159
1898. Observation-Disclosures 1853
1907. ...........,..............H 1914
The growth of the "Queen City of the West"
IS but type Of the growth Of all the other
large Western cities. They seem to spring up
like mushrooms, and theirrecuperative faculties
after great disasters is amazing. For instance,
financial calamity ruins half the commercial
firms and utterly smashes up number of banks,
but in year or so affairs go on as smoothly as
ever, and the city RECEIVERS its wonted pros