The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-08-12
AN EASTERN TOUR.

Michigan Central, Great Western nnst
Erie Ba tisss, yS--Sc~ besI-~Tfic new
Court Housc---Ne,, Haven't oss,n,enec-
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SPRING.
New YORK, July, 1sn.-Compethon for The
carrying of passengers between the East and the
West has become so strong that the different rail-
way companies spare pains or expense to make
the transit as comfortable and agreeable as possible
without disparaging any other route / may say
have found the route over the Michigan Central and
the Great Western. for speed, safety prompt con-
nections, perfection Of road-bed and equipments,
cars, passenger and eating houses attentive con-
ductors and gentlemanly officers the most pleasant
and desirable one. It Is the only route from the
West connecting directly with Niagara Falls. which
can Ice reached from Chicago III nineteen hours.
From that point there two through routes 10 New
York, the New York and Erie Railroad Company
having extended their track from Buffalo uta Niagara
Falls, 10 Suspension Bridge. This is a great public
convenience, as they many trains day between
Buffalo and Suspension Bridge, aud passengers are
now not obliged to lie over, or miss connections,
either at the Falls, Suspension Bridge, or Buffalo.
formerly. Passengers now taken the fast
train from Suspension Bridge or Buffalo in thirteen
and half hOurs, making the running time between
Chicago and New York, over Michigan Central and
New York roads, but thrty-two and a half hours.
This new connection is mutually beneficial to the
public and the New York and Erie railroad Com
pany. as SO large IA portion of Western people prefer
that route for the comfort of its broad-guge cars
aud the unrtyalled beauty of its scenery.
NEW YORK
is the same Babel as ever, tecming with life whose
pulses reach all extrcmities of tho Union. was
there Just before, and just after the riot OF the 10Th
inst The demonstrations of the press and people
of all parties, against the puslanimity Of the city
II, Of It, md. md. IN,
meudation of the police and military for their firm
ness and promptitude in suppresslng the mob.
proved that the great body Of the people, in
favor of good government
The SEW COURT HOUSE,
which has already cost ten millions of dollars and
which viii absorb five six millions more before
IT'S completion, is progressing slowly, and VIII be
as long in builpmg as Solomon's temple, while two
thirds of the money appropriated for IT is stolen 10y
thievish officials and contractors.
NEW HAVEN, CONN,
is celebrated for its college, elm trees and pretty
women. / attended commencement exercises here.
and met my class after absence OF twenty-toT
years. The history Of its members reCited.
Four of them have been Judges of the Supreme
Court Of New York-two of them abli are Larned
and Barnard, some members of Congress, quite
number of them professors in colleges goQdy
number ministers, one-Curwen Of Puunsy kauia-
superintendent of Insane Asylums. several of them
authors-among them IKE MARVEL Donald 6.
M1tchel)-d few doctors of laws, grandfather and
editors. Sixteen out of class Of seventy-eight,
that graduated thirty years ago, are dead.
THE COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
were not marked by any peculiar originality bril-
lancy few pieces were OF superior merit aud wen
spoken most of them were commonplace enough,
and several were quite ante-diuvian.
The Alumni meeting badly managed, aud
most OF the speeches dreary enough The chief
points of interest the retirement speech of
President Woolsey, after presiding over Yale Col
lege twenty-five years, and the speech of the new
President, Noah Porter, indicating the future policy
al. -, 1.at.r ~ -.
Young Yale and the Alumni meeting showed that
at present the old togies nave it.
HARTFORD, CONN,
the weathiest city of its size in the Union, except
Providence, clothed in the lWcliest green, the
houses ia some streets being 50 shaded to darkeu
them. The wOmen-mauE Of them-loOk as if
brought up without sunshine, and have pale and
sicky appearance.
ROCKVILLE,
sixteen miles east of Hartford, Conn, a manutactur-
ing city of 600 people with waterwOrks gas, opera
house, banks, churches, schools, etc. has every
pect OF Astounding life and thrift SChncipsit Lake,
raised % feet, and covering l50e acres, is the i'm
meilSe reservoir 81 motive power Tor the machinery
OF sixteen manufactures grouped within 5000 yards
whose annual product is S3,0000o0.
BELDING BROS. ~ co.
have added large amount Of machinery to
their sewing silk factory here, under the manage
meht OF 4. n. Bedding, to increase ITS product
to S500-0G0 year, and the three mills the control
III Mansfield viii produce much more that
jbe} are by Tar the largest manufacturers and
wholesale dealers of sewing silk and machine twist
III this country. Their houses managed. at 3t5
Broadway, New York, by NJ. NJ. Bedding and e. d
Wood; at 30 West Fourth street, Cincinnati, 10y D.
W. Bedding and at 56 and IS Wabash avenue, Chi
cago, by II. II. Beldlng, W. A. Stanton and C. a. Al
len. Their sales have largely increased the past
year. During the past eighteen months they have
distributed to their retail customers over 5000 OF
their UniNalled r3tent silk gesesfor the display
various cOlOrS, at cost sIo.uU5 Il4,, nov.
running a newly invented machine for cleaning fin
ished silk and making it perfectly even and glossy
From nothing in twelve years, they have grown TO
be the controlling silk house IN the Union, hy com
biuiug enterprise perseverance and SKILL with the
uexibe rule of making all their goods perfect, an
warrantiug all silk with their label, to cayfe pan
with its mark in length, strength, aud weight. Their
motto u.s. the best silk is the cheapest, and the public
say Amen.
SARATOGA SPRINGS
was filling up rapidly, this week, when I was thcro,
9t5 guests being posted the number AT or. hotel,
which accommodates 1000 at the overlooking season,
when 10000 health and pleasure seekers crowd this
old Watering place. 1t must be- q drearT place to
spend a long time in, and yet some people, whose
chief occupation is 10 kill Time do contrive pass
three or four months of the year here. week
here would be peuance for me. But those who
live simply to dress and show themselves, count
this Paradise. i.