Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-06-04
THE CITY.
ABOUT TOWN.
improvements i'm the South End =
street Railroad ExtenslOn-The
State Fair Gr0unds-View
of the SciOtO Valley.

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more intimate relations with the other and
buster portions of Columbus, and promise to
make 1t the most popular division of the
Capital. The characteristic thrift and fru-
gality of the German population, and their
habits of industry in and attention to the
improvements of their domicils and the lit
tie lot of ground thereunto annexed, are
nowhere more forcibly displayed than in
the district south of South street, where
within few years new city, with all the
peculiarities of towns in the Fatherland,
has grown up almost unobserved. The
number of neat little brick houses-the
homes Of frugal and industrious mechanics
each with its well cultivated and thriving
garden, is really surprising to those citi-
zens-nota few in number-belonging up
town, who seldom get down so far. The
growth of the city and increase of its pop
ulation are manifest there, when apparent
in no other portion of the city, and afford
signs of progress and improvement truly
gratifying to all interested in Columbus.
The extension of the street railroad to the
extreme limit Of the city line in that di-
rection, which is now rapidly approaching
completion, is the improvement which will
be the means of making the South End
more popular than it has ever been. The
track of the street railroad, from South
street to Stewards Grove is now completed
with the exception Of putting down the
iron at the lower end, which will doubtless
be completed within week or ten days
thus adding within few feet of one mile
to the present line. The company are COM
pleting the road as rapidly as possible em-
ploying large force of men, and complet-
ing the work as they go. Considerable fill
ing up is yet required along the track lying
in the hollow, and when this is done there
measures should be taken by property hold
ers or the Council to gravel and fill up to
the railroad company's line in the hollow, or
one side of the roadway there will be con-
siderably lower than the track, and below
the authorized grade of the street. The in
creased value of the property would justify
the expense Of filling up the enormous hole
with which that portion of the street has
always been detaced.
When the street railroad is completed the
through trip will be over two miles, from
Tod Barracks to Stewards Grove, and the
ride will constitute quite an agreeable ex-
cursion. 1t is not the intention of the COM
pany to raise the fare, which will remain at
five cents, and many who could not afford
the trip by ordinary conveyances, will find
the means in the railway of pleasant ex-
cursion into the suburbs on Sunday or in
the evening, in which the whole family can
participate, at tritling cost.
The next State Fair will be held at Stew
arts beautiful grove, the terminus of the
horse railroad, and preparations are already
being made for the erection Of the necessa-
ry buildings. The location is not excelled
by any spot in the State for beauty or con-
venience. There are twenty or more acres
of ground covered with grass and deeply
shaded by patriarchal forest trees, which |
afford comfortable protection from the
heat of the sun at all hours of the day; and
the remainder of forty or fifty acres, run
ming back to fifth street, is smooth and
level meadow, for the horse ring, etc. The
street railroad company are receiving
large supply of cars, by which the crowds |
arriving at the union depot can be trans
ferred quickly, comfortably and cheaply to
the entrance to the Fair Grounds.
From the bluffs few steps west of the
terminus, there is visible to the eye, weary of
brick walls and burning streets, one Of the
prettiest landscapes to be seen in the county.
Comparatively few of the denizens of the
buster parts of the city have more just idea
of the beauty of the country which immedi-
ately surrounds it than they have hitherto
had of the facility with which they may
pass from its noise and heat to the enjoy !
ment of pure air and the broad landscape
which nature spreads out in green and
beautiful profusion at Its very doors. From
this elevation the beautiful and luxuriant
Scioto valley is seen spread out Ike map,
and forms picture as pleasing and refresh
ing as any ever transferred to canvas. To
the left, looking westward, the limpid river,
shrunken to its summer channel, CLEANS
out from its frame of green and yellow,
like mirror, and from thence may be
traced in wide circle to the Friend street
bridge by the even line of bushes that in
dicate its course. In the distance is visible
the range of hills or mounds which mark
the western boundary of the valley, while
directly in front there lies an enormous field
of corn, just beginning to wave Its verdant
leaves under the fresh breeze which sweeps
down the valley with refreshing GOODNESS.
One may stand here and see neither street,
shop, nor human habitation, and to all in
tents and purposes enjoy the quiet beauty
of scene In the far-off country.
The CoURrs.-In Common Pleas Court
yesterday George p. Shull withdrew his
plea of not guilty and entered plea ofguil-
ty to the charge of grand larceny, and was
sentenced to eighteen months Imprisonment
an tha panitantiarv Tn tha case of tho |