Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-01-27
Akron Gossip.
AKRoE, Ohio, Jan. 25, 1856

AAAOhy OnlOJ JAN 70, 1000.
DEAR LEADER: Possibly you and your
readers would not OBJ ject to an occasional
reminder by letter, of what we are about
up here on the Acropolis of the Re-
serve. Akron, "high THAT'S the Greek
of it, they ssy-nsme appropriate to our
town as being the summit city. You can
pardon the harmless pedaDtry; for surely
it may be allowed those whose fathers were
learned enough to select Greek name for
the then infant town, to have, and occa-
sionslly to show that they have, learning
enough to interpret it. I repeat it, then,
not shyly but with confidence, the name
of our town is akron, "high," because we
are " on top" of the State
Where the waters begin to fall, enter
prise begins TO rise. You and all bread
consuming Cleyelanders know of our nine
houring-mills by their representative,
"Akron Flour" Butyou may not be quite
ready to acknowledge even the possibility
that you shoot your ducks with our powder,
cook your meals with our stoves, rinse your
clothes with our tubs, fertilize your clover
with our land plaster, and mowers, pack
your butter in crooks of our kneading, and
dribble your ink from bottles of our fash
ioning, send the refuse of your city into
Lake Erie through our sewer pipes, and
build your palatial houses with beautiful
stone from our 1uarries. Trouble not your
self with fears that our zeal is of the sort
which consumes its own gases and goes out.
We have not come to the end yet. We
have still future; it is wrapped up in two
"to bs's," the running of through-trains
on the Atlantic Great Western Railroad,
and the establishment in the spring of a
new agricultural shop" The hundred
and fifty hands which this shop will en-
ploy, with their families, are pleasant sub
lects of anticipation to our dealers in gro
ceries and dry goods.
0fcourse our manufacturing establish
ments make less show of business than do
those branches of trade that provide for the
necessities and tastes of our own town and
its tributary population. At one time last
week were counted from Halls corner, 200
sleighs and two-horse sleds then standing
or passing within distance of two squares.
The farmers always have things pretty
much their own way around that corner,
but last week, tell you, they had high
carnival there. Such motley assemblage
of loads, each having such a ponderOus
wholesale look about it, as if the horses
that had drawn it there must have been
inspired expressly for the occasion. Wheat
and corn, and pork. and beef, and hay, ,a,nd
wood, and straw, and coal and wb, ,,tever
else will help keep the heart bf winter
warm, are on hand for shipper or consumer.
From morning till night, with the tber.
mometer near zero, farmers and townsmen
come and go, and buy and sell, all half
frozen and all jolly,
But what comes of the wealth that is &C
cumulated by the town in these activities
of trader Is - developed into the nobler
activities of intellectual and moral culture?
To certain extent it is. Every fine dwell
ling erected by taste and wealth is an in
tellectusl gift to the whole community.
Two such are building on the old Fair
Grounds. That ofDaniel L. King, Esq, is
near completion; Mr.. Mobiles has just been
enclosed.
An effort is making just now to raise $500
for the foundation of public library. 1t
would be strange anomaly, for town
with the intelligence and wealth of Akron,
to remain destitute of a Library and Read
ing Room. In fact Library Association
Is organized and has already procured for
for US, two lectures, from Murdoch and Dr.
Eells.
With the exception of these two lectures
we have had a desrth of first class amuse-
ments this winter. Tuesday evening the
Colum bianjans, from their name erroneous
ly supposed to be from Columbians county,
gave concert in Empire Hall" Inspite
of storm and cold, they had a full house,
and those of the audience who were enter
tanned with their performance, will hope
that this may prove to be the first in along
line of brilliant successes.
The society of our place suffers an occa-
sional loss from removal. Rev. Mr.. Synder,
of the German Reformed Church, has late
ly left his charge here for wider sphere
of usefulness in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
1t is understood also that Mr.. Folger will
close his connection with the "Empire
House." Should he do so and leave Akron,
the Empire" will lose model landlord,
and the society of our place one of its most
valued members.
To balance losses we have occasional
gains. Perhaps the best acquisition we
have lately made is that of DR.. Ashmun,
late Surgeon of the 93d Ohio, who removed
from Hudson to this place in October last.
A perfect gentleman, and skillful prac-
titioner, the DR.. has already made hosts of
friends, and is fast securing large practice.
Yours, P. E. N.
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