The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1871-02-23
TON STARK COUNTY OHIO, THURSDAY FEBRUARY %. 1871,

hiatus IN creation as would have resulted |
from leaving out Duluth TRoars Of |
laughter. In fact, sir, l was over
Whelmed with the conviction that Duluth |
not only existed somewhere, but that it !
was great and glorious place. 1 was
convinced that the greatest calamity that
ever befel the benighted nations of the
ancient world was in their having passed
away without a knowledge of the actual
existence of Duluth that their tabled
Atlantis, never seen, save by the hallow-
ed vision of inspired poesy was, in fact,
but another name for Duluth; that the
golden orchard of the Hesperides was but
a poetical synonym for the beer-gardens
in the vicinity of Duluth. TGreat laugh
ter. l was certain that Herodotus had
died a miserable death because in all his
travels and with all his geographical re-
search he had never heard of Duluth
Laughter. l knew that if the immor-
tai spirit Of Homer could look down from
another heaven than that created by his
own celestial genius upon the long lines
of pilgrims from every nation of the earth
to the gushing fountain oS poesy opened
by the touch of his magic wand. if he
could be permitted to behold the vast as
semblage of grand and glorious produc-
tlons of the lyric art called into being by
his own inspired strains, he would weep
tears Of bitter anguish that instead OF Law
lshlng all the stores of his mighty genius
upon the fall of Ilion it had not been his
more blessed lot to crystallize in deatbl ess
soEg the rising glories of Duluth. TGreat
and continued laughter. Yet, sir, had it
not been for this map, kindly furnished
me by the Legislature of Minnesota, I
might have gone down to my obscure
and humble grave in an agony of despair,
because 1 could nowhere find Duluth.
Renewed laughter Had such been my
melancholy fate, have no doubt that
with the last feeble pulsation of my break
ing heart, with the last faint exhalation
of my feeting breath, 1 should have
whispered, Where is Duluth 2" rRoars
of laughter.
But, thanks to the benefcence OF that
bond of ministering angels who
have their bright abodes in the far-off
capital of Minnesota, just as the agony
of my anxiety was about to culminate in
the frenzy. of despair, this blessed map
was placed in my hands; and as un-
folded it a resplendid scene of ineffable
glory opened before me, such as l mag
inc burst upon the enraptured vision of
the wondering peri through the opening
gates of paradise. Renewed la9ghter !
There, there for the first time, my en-
chanted eye rested upon the raYishing
werd Duluth"
This map sir, is intended, as it appears
from its title, to illustrate the position of
Duluth in the United States; but if gen
| tlemen will examine it, I think they will
| concur with me in the opinion that it is
far too modest IN its pretensions It not
only illustrates the position of Duluth in
the United States, but exhibits its rela-
| tions with all created things. It even
goes further than this 1t lifts the shade
wy veil of futurity and affords US a view
of the golden prospects of Duluth far
along the dim vista of ages yet to come.
If gentlemen will examine it they will
| find Duluth not only in the center of the
map, but represented in :he center of a
serious of concentrie circles one hundred
miles apart, and some of them as much as
four thousand miles In diameter, emhra-
eng alike In their tremendous sweep the
fragrant savannas of the sun-ht South
and the eternal solitudes of snow that
mantle the ice-bound North. laugh
ter. How these circles were produced is
| perhaps one of those primordial myster-
les that the most skillful paleologist will
never be able to explain. Renewed
|
| pre-eminently g central place, for l ana
| told by a gentlemen who have been so
reck' ess of their own personal safety as TO
venture away into those awful regions
where Duluth is supposed to be that it is
SO exactly in the center of the visible uni
verse that the sky comes down at pre-
cisely the same distance all around it.
Roars of laughter.]
| l find by reference to this map that
| Duluth is situated somewhere near the
western end of Lake Superior, but as
| there Is no dot or other mark indicating
| its exact location l am unable to saw
whether 1t Is actually confined to an
particular spot, or whether ''it is Just w.
| ing around there loose" Renewed
laughter I really cannot tell whether IL
Is one of those ethereal creations of intel
lecUual frest-work, more intangible than
the rose-tInted clouds of a summer sunset
one of those airy exhalations of the specu-
lator's brain, which / am told are ever
fitting In the form of towns and cities
along those lines of railroads, built with
Government subsidies Turing the anwary
settler as the mirage of the desert lures
the famlshing traveller on, and ever on
until it fades away in the darkening horl.
Zon, or whether it is a real, bona fde
substantial city, all "staked off," with
the lots marked with their owners names
like that proud commercial metropolis re.
Gently discovered on the desirable shores
of San Domingo. Laughter But
however that may be, am satisfied Du.
luth is there, or thereabout, for I see il
stated here on this map that it is exactly
thirty-nine hundred and ninety milea
| from Liverpool, laughter 4 though ]
[ have for he aolr Of
it will be removed back ten miles, SO to
make the distance an even four thousand
! lRenewed ,laughter
Then sir there is the climate of Duluth
unquestionably the most salubrious and
delightful to be found anywhere on the
Lords earth. Now, have always been
under the impression, as 1 presume other
| gentlemen have, that IN the region
around Lake superior it was cold enough
for at least five. months in the year to
freeze the smoke-stack off a locomstiya
! CGreat laughter. But see it represen-
ted on this map that Duluth is situated
exactly half way between the latitudes OF
Paris and Venice, so that gentlemen who
have inhaled the exhilarating airs of the
one or basked in the golden sunlight of
the other may see at a glance that Du-
luth must be a place of untold delights.
laughter terrestrial paradise, famed
by the balmy zephYrs of an eternal spring,
clothed IN the gorgeous sheen of ever
blooming flowers, and vocal with the sill
very melody of natures choicest song
steIs. Laughter.] In fact sir, since 1
have seen this map have no doubt that
Byron was vainly endeavoring to convey
some faint conception of the delicious
charms of Duluth when his poetic soul
gushed forth in the rippling strains of
that beautiful rhapsody
1Know ye the land of the ceder and vine,
Where the flowers ever blossom, the beams ever
shine;
Where the light wings of Zephyr, oppressed with
perfume
Wax faint O'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom;
Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit
And the voice of the nightingale never is mute;
Where the tints of the earth and the kaes of the
sky,
In color shOugh varied, in beauty may vie ?"
Laughter.l
As to the commercial resources of Duluth,
sir, they are simply Illimitable and mex
haustable, as is shown by this map. I see
it stated here that there Is a vast scope of
territory aunhrapipy an araa Of QUAR- fxuo