Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-01-11
WORMS.

'Worms" sometimes turn upon the heel that
brushes them. and the Chronicle seems to have
some apprehension that the business "worms'
and ''wretches'' Of the District may show some
spark ofresentment under the fiattening pro-
cess of the Forney brogan 1t hastens, there
fore, 10 tell them that though it feels bound in
spirit Of frankness to brand them as worms
wretches, traitors, bigots, and sprawless
imbeciles, without enterprise or pub
lie spirit, yet it has nothing but their
interests at heart, and that it laws
awake nights, and oversleeps itself morn.
ings, through much cogitation how best
to serve them. To show that these things are
so to public that might else be incredulous,
the Chronicle lays much stress upon its advo-
cacy of the 50 air line railroad to New York
and its labors TO induce northern business TO
come here.
Now, we feel rather reluctant to deprive the
Chronicle of its little all in the shape of District
service capital, but really this is, as the farmers
,"cutting it leetle too fat " That paper must
certainly be put to its trumps when it can in
stance no more disinterested effort in behalf of
the District than its advocacy of the so-called
''air-lin railroad to New York, which, it is
well known, isimply speculative concern
of Pennsylvania (mainly) railroad men. poll
ticians and sehemers. Among the corporators
of this airline road (Which has been so disin-
terestedly advocated ia behalf Of tie District
by the Chroaele,) we find the following Penn
sylvanians of speculative fame:
John McManus, w. NJ. Hester Henry G.
Carey, j. ii. One, Henry Musselman, $ w
Snyder, Chas. Parrish, NJ. McMichael, J. S.
Richards, j. Il. THOMSON, Samuel Mifiin
Isaac Eckert, CT. ID. Coleman, s. V. Merrick g.
Case, T. +. Franklin, ID. Q. FoRNEY, Asa
Packer, J. W. FoRNEY. Thomas Beaver, f.
Reilly, Philip Sassells, G.. b. Mcknight s
CAMERON, o. ]. Dickey, Sam Mack, Jason
Black, Chas. McAlster, J. CT. Fell Jas H.
scranton, j. ID. CAMERON, Samuel Small, T.
A. SCOTT.
Prominent in the nst, ia will be recr, are the
names of JOHN w. FoRNEY and D. C. For
NEY, who are doubtless working in this big
thing (Which, if successful, will make coIos-
sal fortunes for all concerned) without selfish
thought, but wholly in the interests OF the dear
people of the District they so much love, dote
on, and banker after We should be glad to
see bona Gde air line road from Washington
to New York, and hope 10 do so at no distant
day, bat certainly have no faith In this par
ticular scheme, and must say that of all hol-
low pretenees we have seen none to excel that
of the Chronicle i'm claiming that its exuberant
advocacy of this gigantic railroad monopoly
has been dictated solely by consideration of the
interests of this District
OF the same bogus character is its other
Ni"'ih oOONc Vi having served tue
District The business men OF the District are
just DOW suffering greatly from the over
trading caused by an influx of dealers here,
for whom there is not business enough 10 do
1t is a notorious fact that there is scarce a
branch Of business that is not overcrowded
in our District cities at present The
consequence is that all sufter-the resi-
dent business men and the new corners.
Sooner or later some must go to the
wall. Many Of the latter were birds of passage.
who came with the war. made money during
the war, and fitted with their money at its
close. They, of course, made it pay; but such
as, by injudicious representations, came here
to settle permanently, with the idea that great
openings were presented for enterprise, through
the incapacity OF the resident business men to
accommodate the public, have discovered
their mistake. They have found the bust.
ness people of the District, though not
ssfast," in the slang sense of the word, 10 be
tolerably well informed in their specialIties,
and quite sufficiently alive to their own in
terests TO do fairly by their customers; and see
ing all this and feeling that they have been
yictimiZed by bad advice, not a few of them
are pulling up stakes to go where there is less
competition for the sale of their wares.