Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-09-29
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..-.....s New YoRk, Sept. 4th, 1885.
Ems. GAZETTE IL cannot resist the
temptation to write you again to-day,
since think of you SO often, and am
reminded so many times that matter
and things OF your village are SO much
like those of this village. For instance,
l just come from the Board of Trade,
and you have a similar institution at
the Falls. Men and young boys smoke
and drink here, and SO they do with
you, though it is a miserable practice.
The ladies, too, here sweep the street
just as they do in your lace,--though
the festoon plan of hitchiny up is more
practiced here,--and all have lost the
backs of their bonnets, and have a pro-
fusion of coal-6ldck hair and water
falls! o, how the tyrant Fashion rules
these dear creatures. / have called Oh
q few of the merchants I knew twenty
years ago, and they are still selling
JeW goods; SO are the merchants with
you, and much alike here again. H.B.
Chatlin, one of the merchants here, told
me to-day that he sold over .forty-threc
millions last year, while Stewart sold
about thirty nine millions, and this is
more than Allen, Miller 4 Wilson and
Francis sold in your place; but then
they can't sell the goods for the reason
their stores are not SO large. Chatlin's
store is $50 feet deep, so feet wide, and
seven stories high, and he employs 400
men daily to run the machine; and
yet says it is no trouble to him.
There are many things might speak
of here, but time will not permit, yet
will add that the village of New York
is growing, and If nothing happens l
think will be quite Q place by-and.by.
The market here is profusely supplied
with all kinds of fruit,-peaches, as big
as small pumpkins, are laying around
by the cart load. They taste good to
western man, and the only way to save
your Buttons is TO open your vest, and
then put in. Speaking of fruit, it is
very plenty in this region, though not
plenty through Ohio and New York,
but other csops good, especially corn
and oats, and hay enough to feed the
world. j was forcibly reminded in go-
lag through Ohio and New York of the
Importance to the farmers of the West
of stocking down fields to tame grasses,
say clover, red-top, &c. We need the
butter, the cheese, the pork and beef
from the fall feed; and it is too long to
feed stack from October TO May from
the stack, while it could just as well
have gpcd tced two or three months
later in the fall than it does now. You
must preach sermon to your farmers
on faN feed, and urge the importance of
sheds for their cattle, for without them
they freeze up in the winter, and, as
the frost IL not out until the first of
June, they can't grow big and fat. II
this improvement is make "Jack" can
get better beef, and, If we must have
surloin or roast all the way from horns
to tail, 1t will be of better quality than
it now is.
On the whole, this is great country,
and law should bepassed by the State,
and endorsed by your City Council, te
make every man travel to the seaboard
at least once in two or three years. 1t
is better than medicine and this / can
prove by your nep County Coroner,-
ask him. ..........
Yours till next.ttme. -