Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-03-24


berger 81 BreRkey-InsurRnce-
| Travellers Insurance COmpany-Life
and ACcIdent-Geh. Julius White
| DISASTROUS Flre-FOur Lives Lost.
CHICAGO, March 8, 1s69,--No events of marked
Importance. have taken place here since my last
letter. save destructive Are The Saturday Ledger,
a new candidate for public favor story paper ai-
ter the style of the New York Ledger, but ia folio
| FORM makes a very credtablc appearance. The
Chcagoan, which was started as a literary paper,
has been changed to u sensational paper, with what
prospects of pecuniary success am not Informed.
There Ia one great drawback to all literary enter
prise in the west, which the friends OF western lit
| eraturo should understand
NEWS OFFICE MONOPOLY.
Eastern literary publications preocCupy tho West
field and control the principal news dealers in
their interest, that western publishers trusting
to these deslers to circulate their publications, lean
| on worse than broken reed We have house
here called the Western News COmpany--I believe
| a stock company-that patrOniZes western literary
enterprises with fine promises but pays the pub
fishers with lean performances It seeks mOnop
oily of distributing their publications to the news
dealers of the northwest including the city Of Chi
Cago, and il IL did faithfully and fairly what 1t un-
| deTtOok to do, should not have word to say
about 1t. had heard complaints of it, from vari
ous quarters entitled to credit and knew that when
the Soross was started 1t refused to take and sell
it unless 1t could have the exclusive agency In sup
| plying news dealers, and would not allow the pub
lishers " furnish MCNally and other news dealers
|
fishers OF the illustrated paper started last year Is
sued fifty thousand copies which the Western News
| Company undertook to distribute But was told
that after II failed 25 900 copies Of 1t were dug up
from the cellar OF this company. More recently,
this company undertook to distribute the Western
| N0nthly-a new literary magazine here, which has
| reached its third number, and ia meeting with
growing popularity-caiming that 1t supplied serGn
hundred book houses and news dealers, in Chicago
and the west And it said ii tho publishers OF the
Western Monthly, Mesers Reed and Tuttlo, would
advertise their house, by putting this imprint on
the cover-"The Trade supplied by the Western
| News Company Chicago, 1t would do all II could
to give tho magazine circulation. They did adver-
tise them, and what efforts have this company-this
| Western NewH Company-mado to get this 1Oestern
magazine before the western public, with which IT
| claimed to be en- rapport at seven hundred vit0l
points? II agreed 10 take 500 copies of the first
number to distribute to news dealers, &c., but after
1000 copies had been delivered, itsent word thatno
more neod bo furnished, and when the bill was re-
Gently sent them for these, II returned--many of
them in motley state-all hut 23l of the 1000
Coplesl 1t had sold. or sent to It's SepeR hundred
agencos or correspondents, two hundred and thr-
ty-ono copies The publishers, believing from
accumulatng evidence. that they were not fairly
used by this Western News Company, hired man
to canvass the bookstores and news dealers Of Chi
cago, and tako notes of their statements, and they
ascortaned that of Jorty-eOM dealers supplied by
this company only ten Mad received copies OF
the Western Monthly, from the Western News Com
pany Comment is unnecessary. i do not know
that eastern publighers OWn any stock In tho West
ern News Company, or pay II to work for thOm, and
discourage western literary enterprises; but II they
did own II, body and soul, 1t could not aubseryo
thair wishes otfectually than 1t now does. And
tho friends Of western literature should under
stand this and act as prudence dictates. mOnop-
oily that serves the public we'll and faithfully is toll
erahle. But dogin-the-manger monopoly should
not be chartered with the rights and interests of
| western literature, by western publishers, nor be
encouraged to smother western enterprises. have
| al In aa
l have In common with all true western men, but
my sense of justice and love of fair play will not
permit me TO OVERLOOK such manifest unfaifness to
the interests of western literature.
AMUsEMRNTs.
The various theatres are making great efforts to
attract the pleasureOving public. The Ticket-of-
| Leave Man has had fair run OF Aikens new Dear
born theatre the Worrel Sisters have been playing
at Mcvickar and the Field of the Cloth Of Gold at
the Opera House has been succeeded by a sensa.
tionaI piece, Tho Original Man Fish, In which
, Henry durr eats, drinks and smokes under water.
, in glass aquarium, twenty feet square and ten
= feet high. Rather a cold looking bath for this
! weather.
has not yet fairly opened. except in the GrdwarO
A business, and that-which ia an index of general
A trade-promiseB better than last year 1t 4, moro
directly connected with tho industrial inter sts of
the country than almost any other branch Of trade,
and activity In this department Is good sign OF
~
, this line worthy Of note is the Arm OF
! sEEBERoRR a BREAKEY.
= A we'll established house, on the corner Of Lake
= aud State streets, dotrg large importing whole.
sale hardware business and deserving as well as en-
oying the confidence OF the trade in the Northwest
They have ample facilities for the transaction oil
> business large and well assorted stock Of foreign
Y and domestic hardware and cutlery, agricultural
u goods, timers stock, farmers toola fence wire,
e kc filling four floors of their store. They buy for
! MI aaIl nj man
lie but six years old, yet with the vigor and enter
J prise OF young men, they have built up large
trade by their excellence and cheapness Of their
v goods and their liberal treatment OF customers.
Z Their reputation is equal to that Of any hardware
:, house In the city.
y Another branch of business directly connected
8 with industrial pursuits and sharing the fortunes
e Of the producing classes is
II sADDLEnY HARDWARE,
:. including also all kinds and styles of saddles
horse collars horse clothing, sleigh bells, harness
leather &c. AT tho head Of this trade here standl
:; the old, weknown and always reliable house OF
II coNDIcr, wsapLLEY oo. % LAKE STREET,
> which for quarter Of century has demonstrated
% thopolicy we as duty, OF integrity prouptness
)f and fair dealing In trade. Being Emanutacturer
N az well ae dealers, and having the anpost meani
y and facilities for supplying the demands Of th'
- trade they can furnish their goods at the loves
l. living rates. Their specalties are
q RuDDRR-LINED HORSE COLLARS
h durable, elastic water proof, unaffected by hea
q or cold, free from punches, healing instead o
a creating sores and superior all others They keel
:. oak tapnsd leather from the celebrated SPRING
y WILLIE TANNERY, and tho most complete assormen
s. Of all goods In their line Not TO know j o
20 woolley the active managing partner augers one
= self unknown We commend this house to al
a purchasers Of this class of goods.
;" INSURANCE.
In speaking of Chicago, some time ago, as III
headquarters of the Insurance business, and OF tn
20 different kinds Of insurance, had neither time no
tn room to discriminate between the different system
~ of Life insurance And this is subject Of vita
III importance 10 worry large and increasing numhe
b. Of the people, will supply the omission at thi
et timo
sV viz: The Stock plan, by which the insured pay
IN lower premium and receive aepocihed sum at death
tn or on the termination of their policy; or tho Mu
,e tuai plan by which the insured pay higher pre-
~ MUM, and after several annual payments receive
return Of part OF the hrst premium and annual
or thereafter or additions 10 tho amount named In tn
e- policy, at its expiration.
MI on the Stock plan, the company really pays III
=. -, insured dividend yearly N Advance by decllr
lug TO take II out Of their poeketsthat s by insul
II ing at q cheaper rate. On the Mutual plan, tn
IT. company first takes tho dividend out Of the pocket
OF tho insured, by charging higher rate, and the
pays II back again, after three or four years use
% H. during which period tho insured must pay IN
at terest In advance on tho deferred dividends An
ono can SEQ which Ia really tho safer. cheaper, bo
ter plan Aud the best writer's on insurance are d
cidedly In favor Of the Stock plan, ..t
o- In tho highest and best SENSE Stock Companie
ms are Mutual Companies, for II IL the combination
n n large number OF persons for their mutual prote,
tion which constitutes practical successful worl
VI inQ Insurance Company. And II should nev0r b
~ forgotten that no safe Insurance Company can pa
in dividends 10 the insured reducing tho cost OF II
A. surance, without hrst charging more than rs nece
OF Insurancs Companies differ still moro widely b
pe doing business either on the cash, or on III