Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-12

MERcHAxr's DEsPATcH-PATNEST OF
LOSSES BIZ 4 F~oRwARDiSe LINB.-The BUSH
ness public is aware of the existence of the
fast freight line for the transportation Of
freight from the East to the West and South
west, known as the Merchants Despatch"
The Line is owned and managed by the
American Express Company. Heavy ship
| pers and large buyers of goods are familiar
with the practical workings of the line, and
know til. facility with which business is
transacted and goods are transported and
| delivered, and, recently, they have had
| abundant opportunities for discovering the
resourcesof the company who have charge
of the enterprise, and the promptness with
which the payment of losses is made by
them. The Company has of late metheavy
losses, but all claims have been so speedily
recognized and made good, that there is no
room for doubt as to the perfect reliability
and integrity, moral and material, of the
proprietors of the line.
We find in some OF our western exchanges
notices in reference to a Fast Freight Line,
in which all western and southwestern
business men, as well as shippers in New
York, have great interest. We extract as
follows:
From the Daily Wisconsin,
To the Merchants Of Maoaukee:
The undersigned desire to call your at
tention to the payment, with interest, of
losses sustained by US in the burning of the
NJ. C. R. R. Depot at Detroit, on goods in
transit by " Merchants Despatch"
The total amount of claims upon "Mer-
chants Despatch" resulting from the fire,
is said to reach nearly $4,000. The hon
| orable adjustment of a loss of such magni-
tude is a guaranty of reliability which will
be regarded as important by western mer-
chants. H. STERN, JR, d Bro,
A. MKINRCKE.
IFrem the Detroit Tribune, Feb. -
CARD.-We take pleasure in publicly
acknowledging the receipt in full, with in
terest, of the Merchants Dispatch, the
amount of o ur claims for losses by the burn
ing of the NJ. C. R. R. Depot in this city.
SIGNED.
Town 6Sheldon, W. H. VanCleve&B Bro =,
Duncan Bros, Frank S. Phelp a Co,
Godfrey, Dean & Co., H. C. johnson,
Bayden & Baldwin, Stephen Smith,
Richmond & Backus, Munford, F, s.ir & Co.,
Wayne Il Robinson, Rucker & Morgan,
VIM. Phelps & Co., Henry Lee,
From the Western Merchants Price Current
Chicago, Jan. 20
We notice with pleasure that several
houses in Burlington, Iowa, publish a card
in reference to settling up their lssses by
the late fire in Detroit. They say in their
card that "the Merchants Despatch have
paid their CLANS in full, with interest, and
that they are entirely satisfied with the
adjustment OF the same"
The Merchants Despatch is owned and
managed by the American Express Com
pany. This is ample guaranty fer its abil-
ity 10 meet its losses.
Mr.. W. S. Porter is agent in this city for
this line. His Office is No. 90 Bank street
Mr.. Porter is a gentleman in every respect
and a man of thorough business qualifica-
ton and habits; and he, as well as the com
pany which he represents, is worthy of the
confidence of the business world.
BAHRY's G~As-CONsUNISG STovE.-Several
scientific gentleman OF this city examined
on Saturday last, at the Stove store of J.. NJ.
Bailey, Bank street, a bituminOus coal gas
burning stove, which was invented by Mr..
Robert Bailey, of this city, an patented
December Goth. It was pronounced a per-
feet success, the final realization of deep
study and endless experimenting, by count
less heads, for scores of years, and an
achievement which must inevitably revolu-
tionize stove manufacture. 1t bu-us up all
the gas and smudge, SO that the SD IKE issu-
ing from the chimney is so vapor-like thgt it
ia scarcely visible. P. P. Stewart, the great
stove patriarch, owns that it burns the gas
admirably, but, with a hitch quite natural
10 a patenteethinksthe Bailey stove will not
use 1t up as well as his,-an opinion however,
wide Of the truth. For it would seem that
in the burning of coal in this stove there
is a perfect development, as there is a full
eeonomizing OF heat, and the coal is made
to burn with amazing uniformity and for
an incredibly long time,-three fourths
larger than in Stewards.
This stove is of goodly appearance. M S.
Vedder, Esq, of Troy, n. Y, designed and
made the patterns of this sample, and
Messrs. Boswell and Durant, of West Troy,
fled and fitted the same. The peculiar iea-
ture of it is the coaI-pot, which is surrounded
by en- air-chamber, from which the oxygen
is freely supplied to the flame through
holes in the plate. The air IS admitted into
this chamber from the back part of the
stove, near the bottom. The flame is drawn
forward, and the gases not consumed in the
pot are burned at the 'front.' fire hue, out of
whose punetured crescent-shaped plate
pours another flood of oxygen supplied frem
the same air-chamber. The heat rises at
first, but is drawn down to the base of the
stove. whence it aseends throughE four
eolumnar pillars to a receiver at the top of
the stove, and thence up chimney. A vast
radiating surface is thus exposed, and the
stove must of necessity be an immense'
heater.
The total consumption of gases makes it
as healthful as an open CRATE. 1t is eeonOm-
ical, for it burns all the carbon of the coal,
anu d5 AucEG Is SUCH NAu46sdAC GbmuASAluH
of oxygen in the burning Of that carbon, the
economy of the fuel used is greatly en-
HANGED. It is durable, despite the coneen-
tratiop of the heat evolved, since the plates
are preserved and kept in position by the
enormous quantity of cold air rushing over
and through them into the flame. The
front flue plate never gets red hot. And the
shape of the plates is favorable to immense
resistance to the action of heat.
Citizens are invited to call at J. NJ. Bal
ley's stove shop on Bank street, and see
this " institution" which is bound to super
sede all the stoves in vogue.
CLEVELAND UNION DEPor DINING HALL AND
THE CREsrIIST CONTINENTAL HOTEL Wheeler
and Russeirs Dining Hall at the union
depot in this city has gained a very wide
reputation. Indeed, it is known to all gen
eral travellers, and every tongue parched,
halEfamished passenger looks forward to
its inviting tables with as much desire as
the pilgrim to Mecca. The praises of
the establishment are sounded on all hands,
and it is accounted one of the very best re-
rresbment halls on the railroad routes of
he No-therD States