Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-08-11
Letter From 81. Paul.


Hdtt0r Rutland Herald A letter ap
peared in your paper of July IA, dated a
st. Paul, and signed with the initials O
Il. d., which deserves to be roughl,
of Duluth, which it seeks covertly ant
basely to iniure.
What makes this letter the more des
picable is that the writer, not conten
with sending it to one paper only, hal
sown il broadcast over the land, where
ever his writings would be given in print
that he might "as far as in him is" do in
jury to this young and prosperous town
at the head of the lakes, toward which &
great flood of emigration is sweeping tc
be ready for the great volume of exchange
which nature, not man, has declared shall
there be done. And what are the reasons
that have caused o. e. D., who till the
last short thirty days. has been thro' these
same papers lavish in eulogies upon this,
"the destined great City of the Northwest;
80 suddenly to right-about faoo," and
where he "blew hot, blow cold" 1t is
this Mr.. Editor that 1 write to tell through
you your many readers.
Well 1t seems that O.E.D., year and
hall or such a matter ago, represented
to certain parties, largely interested in
Duluth, that he was the acknowledged
correspondent of nobody knows how many
papers, and that if they would "come
down" handsomely, he would proceed to
write up the "City of the Unsalted Seas"
through the columns of his myriad papers
"both daily" They assented, whether
justly or not is no concern of ours, prom
isiug the Sweet Singer Ossian" lot in
the city, which his pen was to make,
with this as it seems unfortunate proviso
"that the Lake Superior and Mississippi
Railroad, to extend from st. Paul to the
'to be" city of Duluth, should be COM
pleted, before the Fourth of July, 1870, or
no lot.
Alas for Ossian Nature was against
him, and though the contractors did their
utmost, the road swarming with laborers
to have it completed at that publicly ex-
peoted time the LIST of August, was des-
tined to pass before the iron should unite
the greatest river and lake of the globe.
But Ossian was not dismayed. o ! no
he had known disappointment "to the
which" this was as nothing. What wai
the loss Of lot; worth at the most one
two, or three thousand dollars to the
Secretary of the st. Paul Chamber o.
Commerce" with salary of $500 pei
year secured in these hard times t.
abash a man who, (had given ooncerts)
(alone), needing no instruments, save
hand organ, machine to grind GU
poetry and his own sweet voice, gto empt,
benches, and made money at that. Be
side perhaps the lot wasn't lost, ray O
hope, he would write at once to thes,
gentlemen ~ at Duluth asking them tt
send him the "deed" No reply to BIZ
letter Git can be produced) do they Civ
him. Nature and her great ally 9TH,
Secretary of the st. Paul Chamber o
Commerce $500 year'0 have made
city at the head of the lakes and lots arr
NOllh iuOIG Iudu DEOIulSpS
The Duluth parties since the road wa
not completed at the specified time ar
great sticklers like old Shylock for tn
''letter of the law" while Ossian believe
that Justice should be tempered will
mercy" and so the war began. 1t is nov
Ossian against Nature and Duluth.
From the office of the Secretary of thu
St Paul Chamber of Commerce" at $500
ayear, the ink, flows in all directions
black with the wrath of Ossian. But il
is not he that is angry in the letters o
no, the sweet singer, it is DIR. Thos Foster
in whose behalf he ostensibly seizes tn,
quill he is the graphic writer, his is tn,
sparkling vigor, brilliant smiles, anc
puDgert sarcasm which has no superio,
in America" and with one sweep of hi
pen he, DR.. Thompson, is to blot on
Duluth"
But see, Mr.. Editor. o. E. D. doesn'
write this letter and send il to YOU 1906
miles to tell you that there is but BILE a.
Lake Superior which the Doctor can dis
sipate with the prick" of pen. thai
many go there with money to invest. but
now leave because the cat is out of the
bag, that this is a city built by specula
ton. o no, the innocent souls, il /,
written to tell you about the fight be.
tween two local papers, between the sar.
castle Doctor and "Bg Hanson" a gam
bier, and these are only the facts ineiden
Observation-Disclosures yoa.- brought
in to embelish the skogy and make i,
readable.
Shrewd Dodge, ArtfuI Dodge. thor
wearest well thy name--Sir and given
alike. But Mr.. Editor, DIR. Thomas Eos.
ter, nor ossian E. Dodge, can never bio,
out Duluth--her future is assured. They
may for time check the progress-bu:
the Maker of this Universe has estab-
lished the fact that here at the head OF
this great lake, whose waters by nayi-
gable streams reach the Atlantic must be
sgreat commercial city. .fe1 s1t