Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-02-24
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TEE SALT-sEEKKRs.-In giving the
names Ofths gentlemen who have gone to
Saginaw in pursuit of salt, it win be remem-
bsred that We mentioned the name Of a we'll
known coal dealer, to whom, our reporter re-
fsrred as q the doctor" Imagine our aston
ishment, on Saturday, at meeting the doctor
on the street He insisted that we should
correct what be was pleased to term an error
IN the paper, for he hadn't gone to Saginaw
at all We BIandly referred him to satur-
day morning's LEADER, in which it was stated
that he had gone, and also read to him the
following extracts from the dispatch sentTus
from Toledo by cur reliable and Yeracious
reporter, who is with the party:
" The doctor is dissatisfied. He says he
hadn't come cross any salt yet.
The doctor, who had fallen asleep, woke up,
and wanted to know if they wasn't going to
have any salt"
We asked him if he supposed, in the face
Of the above, that we could coolly tell our
readers that the doctor didn't go7 PIepOs-
ferrous. The best we could do for him, we told
him, was to say in to-dsy's paper, that he had
returned for the purpose Of ascertaining the
price Of coal, and would rejoin the party i'm
mediateIy. He demurred, but we were in
exorabIe. Let the aiaD6r of, and who knows
but what the entirer'pnrty would q go back
on US, our reporters business be spoiled, VIC
curtailed in items of interesting news, and
community as well as science be deprived Of
the valuable results of their investigations in
salt No, no, Doctor, it's ego"
Letters and packages for the Saginaw par
ty may be left at Cross & Payns's Coal Of
fee. -.---.....
Since writing the above, we have received
the following from our reporter:
sAeISAw, February 2Sd. .
ED1roR OF LEADER: We had pleasant
trip from Toledo here. We met with very
aattcring reception at several stations, where
the people had heard Of our coming. At one
station the entire FIRE department, consisting
of watsr-tank, turned out to honor the ar
rival of the Chairman of the Fire and Water
Committee. he made speech to the tank,
urging it, with vehement eloquence, to go
and be steam fre-engine. As he was at
tempting to prove tho advantage Of being a
steam fire engine, by exhibiting diagram of
the Council Chamber, the Major interrupted
him by asking the tank in the most
insinuating way if it wouldn't prefer to
go and be an elevator.
(Ths Major has got elevator on the brain.
The Chairman Of the Fire and Water Com
I mittee appealed to the company to know
whether it was his. reception or the Majors
-Ehether the water tank had turned out to
honor the City Council or 7. G. B. &co. The
company decided with one voice that it do,
but the train started before further remarks
could be made. The forwarder at this mo
ment passed around some brine, when mutu-
al good feeling was restored.
The doctor enquired with considerable
sce1bity if they wasn't never to have not nc
salt. He had been induced to leave his bust.
ness, he said, upon promises of fabulous
quantities Of salt, but he hadn't seen enough
yet to give saline flavor to his porridge.
(NOTE.-It will be seen that our rsportei
persists in reporting the doctor as one of tn,
company. 1t is certainly very distressing
for our friend to be in two places at the sam,
time, and those two places SO far apart a
Cleveland and Saginaw; but we don't know
that we can help it. Our reporter says he i
there, the doctor declares that he is here
Each ono of them being entitled to belief, ",
are bound to believe both. We regret tn
unhappy conflict of personal location, in tn
case of the doctor, but don't see how we car
help it nOw.-EDIToR.I
We arrived at Saginaw all right, and pu
up at the Saginaw House. mi fact, we couldn'
put up anywhere else here-aH saginaI
houses. We began to be dry before we go
within Fifty miles Of here, the atmosphere i
I SO strongly impregnated with salt. Water
too, has tasted salty ever since we left CIeve
land, and we stopped Elaking our thirst wit
it before we got ten miles away from home
The Councilman suggests that water is goo
, enough to convert into steam and to projeC
through rubber hose at fires, but there is
, transparent thinness about it that units
for the human stomach. The Major say
,, water is dead failure, considered as an ele
yator. The forage and stOragsr add
something to the effect that water has done
great deal for the New York Central Line
propeIlers, but as for him, pass around ii
tie brine, ~
We are all huddled together in one room
They have only one other room in the hous
: and that is the salt rhetm-we wouldn't as
< them to give US that.
, Tomorrow we begin our explorations, an
will send You the result of them.
e Yours in brine, REPoRTER.