The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-03-06
A Week i'm Cincinnati.

Correspondence SOMERSET IREsS.
Arrived there at y in the night -
Would have got there at ) P. NJ. but
the train from Somerset was 20 minutes
behind time at Junction and we tlrned
back and went by Newark and Colum-
bus. No deduction for this mistake, or
what is nearer the right name, this la
illness and negligence of the railrn nld.-
We were charged 80 cents to go By bus
to the Broadway hotel. Paid it cheer
fully at that time of night-for -tran-
gers do not want to be walking at that
houAr hunting place to sleep. It i not
thought safe.
1t was just Ii years since la; saw
Cincinnati. Since then the river wIich
rolls in silent majesty at the feet cf the
Queen city, has been spanned b. two
bridges. The lower one for street cars
and footmen, the other and last 1t for
railroad cars and footmen, and also street
cars. There is grandeur in both these
bridges Even the grandeSt steam boat
bows its steam pipes in homage as
it passes under them, and it was not
hard to observe that the grandcr the
boat the lower it bowed; it had ., or
spoil it's pipes. Smaller boats are less
reverential and the less pretentious glide
along as if there were no exalted image
of reverence in the world. | saw : boat
near the wharf--I can't tell its exact
length or width, but il looked long
enough to reach from our town h Il to
Dick Cox's new dwelling, and vide
enough 10 scrape Scott's corner ana Odd
Fellows Hall if it passed between lem.
1t had no steam pipes, no engine, !: It in
the center it was two stories higt, the
upper story having windows and stove
pipea and window curtains as if made
for passengers. The whole of the lower
part is devoted to merchandise.
thought I could load into it all the
movable chattles in Somerset al once
and carry them to St. Louis. This great
freight and passenger boat is towed by
an immense steamer. It looks SAFE for
passengers for if the boiler of the steam
er should burst and the steamer itself
go down, the great boat behind would
float along as If nothing had happ ned,
so il seemed to me. ] saw teams drive
into the great boat, turn round, load up
and come out until the warf looked rs if
all the cotton, tobacco, sugar and rice Of
the southern states had come Their. 90 be
exchanged for other articles. | :nl of
the opinion that so large a boat only
finds its way so far up the Ohio river
when the water is plenty like it is now.
The river looks like forrest of lead
trees along the warf for miles and the
boats seem numerous and cape ious
enough to float or shelter 10000 peo-
pie. A constant stream of footm.r is
in motion across both bridges, c.,e of
which connects Newport and the other
connects Covington with Cincinnati, each
Of whom pay three cents to eros or 3
cents for the round trip.
Newport and Covington, both in Ken
lucky, are only parts Of the great city
and bound to it by the two bridges .fore-
said and by ferry boats which seeni to
cross and recross as often now, as they
did IA years ago. In summing up The
population of Cincinnati these two chill
dren across the river should be es,irna-
ted in the count, for their growth and
their population is as much the result OF
the Queens prosperity as the gr with
and population west of Central Avenue
and north west of Cutter street. The
river is the line between any thing more
than separate parts of the same great
city of Cincinnati, none the less parts of
Cincinnati because of the river between,
than the territory across the cana! be-
cause it is called the Rhine.
JUDGE WHITMAN
Is in Cincinnati since 1923. Ii ten
years time he has builtup a grand prac-
tice in the law and amassed fortune.
He is weary Of city life and longs to go
to the country for rest. He has worked
day and night and there is no prospect
of rest while his shingle is ont. There
is good chance for good lawyer to
take the place of Judge Whitman at
the bar there, and the Judge is inclined
to exchange his princcly practice and
his beautiful residence on Gutter street
Tor rural abode in some country town