Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-10
LETTER FROM CHICAGO.
Tho ChoIera-Suburban Toys vs.. City
Miseries-The CeIIeet0rsh1p-Ene
Ministers OF Chicaeo-The Progress
of the Tunnel.
Especial Correspondents Cleysland L~EADER,]
G-v14no Nov = 1894
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THE COMMON DISTRESS.
Our people all other
denizens Of dirty cities are troubled, ap-
prehensive that the searchings Of the grim
epidemic will find out their dirtiness and
rcbuke it. The City Fathers are phleg-
matte, like all other City Fathers, and
propose to do something about it after the
hot season has fairly set in-not sooner.
A feeble farce was enacted some weeks
since in the appropriation of twenty-five
thousand dollars, and the employment of
thirty men, who should make q dumb
show for the entertainment Of the humor-
ously inclined. This week, another
twenty-five thousand dollars was voted,
and 1 infer that another thirty men will
perhaps be employed, in which case one
man will only have ten or fifteen miles
Of streets 10 clean daily. Meanwhile,
May has arrived, and the odors begin to
tickle our be-doomed elfactories. If the
pestilence will only pause at the nose,
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clan and even to the Roman orders, we
shall find occasion for devout thanks
giving.
SUBURBAN.
Happy among the happiest are the for
tunate workers in town whose season
tickets take them out by some accommo-
dating train at shutdown, to smell the
green fields, and sup under fresh budding
trees! They fear neither cholera nor
taxes monsters equally grim. Their lit
tie ones learn only virtue at the village
school, aad I'LL their tender lungs with
only the sweetest breezes. Noneed have
their wives for bottled 'new mown hay"
in June the whole air will be heavy with
Its fragrance. No care have they wheth-
er the sWeltering vegetation to be vended
in town arrived on Saturday, OF IN Mon
day. From their own gardens the house
/ wife gathers with neat hand that which is
| to lie at once upon the tempting board.
| And at nightfall, there is fear neither of
| garroter nor burglar; but, gathered Oh
| the moonlit piazza, the happy household
chat and mediate and exchange gentle
caresses until the later hours WOO each to
dreamless or happy-dreaming slumber,
such as the reeking wights of the town
| have never known, and never can know.
Your jewellers on Euclid and Prospect
streets, your princes of East Cleveland,
and favored ones of the Heights, will
hardly appreciate this sha~rply-drawn con-
trast between town and country; but
there are those, even in your goodly forest
Of q city, who have tarried elsewhere long
enough to believe, without reinsurance,
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/" after nature Great is our Babel of
| merchandise; wonderful are the miracles
! Of our growth; but woful is our plight,
in the very lap of a.'prairie swamp. We
have put eight feet of dry soil under us,
| but the swamp is under the soil, and for
| ever will be.
THE COLLECTOR OF h PORT.
New York had its little trouble after
Mr.. Kings death, courteously DOMINIC
! Grape for the deceased, and shrewdly re-
serving its anxiety for the campaign of
the candidates. The attentive country
was expected TO sympathize, and the ex-
peetation was generously fulfilled. Twen-
ty-ive States, at least, slept better the
night after the victorious Smythe was
named to the Senate-consult.
If the country is quite at leisure, we
might perhaps enlist its sympathies in our
behalf. We have q port, and had q Col
lector, until death took him also from US.
He was scarcely buried before q friend Of
our Representative in Congress was IN
derstood to be appointed to the vacancy.
But bysome m~ischance the bud of promise
was cruelty blasted, and the inviting Of
fee still tempts the vacant politician
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FEATURE.
Not 10 disparage the just complacency
of other equally fortunate towns, we may
without immodesty felicitate ourselves
upon a good fortune that has already be-
come a feature Of our social physiognomy,
l mean the high order of our pulpit talent.
Our churches, with a commendable am
bition, seek the best pastors to be found,
and have been happy in gaining access to
willing ears. We have in the various
denominations an aggregate Of talent al
ready commanding, and still improving.
No better evidence of the accumulation
need be sought than is suggested by the
constant succession of calls which our
ministers receive from all parts Of the
East, the Oldest and the most highly
cultured. If a man of high order is
wanted for some specially important post, /
a pastorate, a professorship, or a pTesi-
dency, the trustees look Eastward, and
finding none, look Westward; and, look |
ing Westward, look first at the Western |
metropolis. Thus it happened that a few
weeks ago four of our leading clergymen
were under call from the East at the same
time, two of them TO presidencies of
New England colleges. And as only two
of the four were persuaded, it may be in
ferred that even Chicago has its attract
ions. In these four cases it happened
that the question of salary was not one OF
moment, the figures ranging alike to go CT |
STAY. But the fact that prosperous lay |
men are not unwilling &c share some por-
ton of their income with their pastors, |
has its encouraging influence. The aver
age Of frst-class salaries was about 50, 500 |
until the war closed, only two or three
churches paying more. But when the
New England Congregational Church, |
bent upon depriving Governor Bucking-
ham of his pastor, offered IS, 900, and raised
it without difficulty, others followed so
good an example without delay-not
upon calling new pastors, but immedi-
ately raising the income of present in
cumbents, and hereafter no frst-class |
minister need work for less.
MANUFACTURING.
Very few, sven of our own citizens, |
have an adequate idea of the amount Of
manufacturing now going onin our grain.
handling community. We have immense
rolling mills, boot and shoe factories, en-
CINE and boiler factories, wagon and car
rage establishments seldom equalled in
extent, furniture manufactures, tanneries, |
cab factories, distilleries, woollen mills,
chair factories, hat and bonnet factories, |
and q long list more; enough by them
selves to employ the residents of a large
city; but quite buried in the midst Of the
thronged quarters Of trade, which after
all is The business of our people.
THE TUNNEL
Under the lake, which is to bring US
drinkable water, is now two-thiTds finish
ed, and will be ready for use, we are as
sured, early in September. Those of US
who keep filters are in no haste; but the
masses look forward to the Era of Clean
Water as the good time coming. The con-
tractors have done their best, and as their
figures prove to have been too low, will
be paid a bonus amply sufficient TO give
them a share in the general good feeling,
when the great work is done.
CHIEF.