The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-12-15
CAIRO.
ITS FAST AND PREsENT--soME OH FRIENDS
HOTELS, FACTORIES AND SCHOOLS
THE CUSTOM HOUSE.
tFrom tn. Peoria Matte ma, Denc

| (ffom the Peorla Nallcna Deinocra'.)
Were we to attempt anything like even
synopsis of the history of ;he above
named city, our paper would be full long
before we reached the point whore we first
saw that city-lS55-much less its ups and
downs since that date Many of the incl
| dents of our short residence in Egypt arc
pleasant in the extreme, and none more so
than those falling to our lot when on q So
Journ in Cairo. On our recent visit there
we saw many new faces, but few old ones
among the former thousands. The latter
we can almost count upon our fin
| gers. Time, the levcller of all things"
has not been less idle there han elsewhere.
One of our first acquaintance and best
friends in 1855, John @. Hartman, q man
| with heart as big as a bushel basket, is
| still there. We found him in the circuit
cler ks office doing his duty, ms he is always
at the polls election day, for be it said to
| his credit that he is just as good demo-
| crat as he is good fellow, and those who
know John socially will know that he
wants no "passivity' in hisn.
COL $. S. Taylor, agent of the Cairo
city company, and one Of the solid men of
the city and state, looks rs young as he
did twenty years ago. We then were a
young boy, and he a middle-aged man
how else 70 account for his not growing in
years, like the rest of us on any other rea-
sons than that he does his duty to every
one in the way of the fair thing, we know
not but we do know that Cairo to-day
has, under his guide, taken steps that will
cause her present population to double in
the next five years, and to go on with simila
1 rapidity until our state can boast Cairo
| If not as large as her namesake of the old
| world, one worthy the third state in the
| union rs a great manufacturing city.
We found j. b. Taylor, now collecting
the city funds, the same good, natural
whole-soul boy he was fifteen years ago,
on certain Sunday, when we went
"Gypsyng around now he has five
responsibilities, good wife, and nice
cottage home, and guess he has forgot
ten the little episode, but not so us, judging
from the good warm shake of the hand
and How are You, Dowdall p given on
entering his sanctum.
| Next we called on our friend Billy Gil
bert and his brother. We knew him as
Billy Gilbert twenty wears aro-now As
ono of the first lawyers in Egypt and a
rising man. Paying call on his estimable
lady and her sister, nee-the Misses Bar
| ry, OF Alton, we were pleased in the ex-
treme to see them looking so we'll and SC
costly fixed. But this opens new avenu,
ALTON, which if we start along with the
pleasant mem cries, Alton and her hills
the beauty of her bellies .Iand SIGH" We
know we would never get through. Sc
drawing the curtain over fond memories
past and pleasant little surprise in Cairo
, present, we will speak OF the business OF
the city, education, &C., and stop lest some
one might not SO much enjoy reading OF
r old time subjects as we do in writing
, them up.
First We will speak of hotels. The St
Charles, under its present excellent pro.
prietor Mr.. j. ID. Rexford, has been re.
furnished and refltted, al d is excellently
! kept. The house is large one, we only
wish Peoria bad one as large.
Under the fostering care of our friend
Winston, who, by the way is one of Vir-
ginia's noble sons, and his excellent lady
knows how to make her guest feel at
home, we visited the manufactures Firts
calling at the Cairo hub factory, large
three-story brick building just finished
at cost of S3l 900 and full Of the best
tools The gentlemen running this factory
are from Michigan, and expect to do a
heavy businiss, as they are prepared to do.
and we see no reason why they should
l j I.
| Next we called at the stave and barrel
factory, started in May last, on capital
from Cape Girordcan: Mo, ana doing
| gentlemen's names below it, but cannot
now read our own manuscript, having Jet
It get cold. Their capital invested, is
100000.
Next new wagon factory by gentle
man from kankakce, whose name is in the
same condition as the one above, not men,
toned but spoken about. He served in
the late constitutional convention, and be- !
coming disguised with politics, abandoned |
that for and honest calling went to
CAIRO and commenced making fine car
riages, wagons, IL.
We then called at the fruit box manu-. |
factory, where they make exclusively. |
boxes for holding peaches, pears, straw
berries, &c, and was much pleased with |
the way the work is carried on, and sur
prsed to find how much business could be |
done in such little things. They do about |
100000 business at fair proht-we |
guess big profit. From here we visited |
Eames 4 Cos (of Michgan) agricultural
works; Connant Il Cos barrel factory;
Gudleys carriage factory; an extensive
tannery Eichoff Bros furniture factory
an extensive saw and planning mill and
foundry, ana two boiler works, all of which |
have been started the present year, TO saw |
hothlng OF those started previously. We |
think Cairo can boast of being n preat
manufacturing point at no distant day. |
ana especially SO when we say that all the |
older houses of this class are doing we'll
we VIII give one to suffice for all |
Gallagher Il Co, ten years ago, built |
a Touring mill which has been |
running regularly since. From the |
profits Mr.. Gallagher has built
$4,000 residence, and surrounded him |
self with corresponding luxurles, and is
still running the mill and making money. |
Among other fine residences of the place, |
we noted that of Col. Taylors, which cost
$4,000, VIM. Halliday's, which cost S65,. |
600, and many others. There are now |
about 10000 people in Cairo, and |
when the new railroad lines, now
projected, reach the city it will take
start that will make it one of
the important cities of the United States.
Ofthe lines of railways, the extension
Of the Mobile and Ohio, from Columbu,
KY the Cairo and st. Louis narrow gauge
now under contract with Col. Taylor rs
president, and the Cairo and Vincenucs
also largely under contract, all will