The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-22

contained There are many vacant
buildings, wllici show that business.
as is generally -he case with new
town, was considerably overdone at
the start. Without completing our
observation, Wtlreturn to the hotel
to be RECALLED with an excellent sup
per, Of which strawberries and cream
formed one OF the principal dishes.
We had seea no strawberries tor
several wee IS down in the Estates"
but they ref.gar here, in this later
cline, IN great abundance. At an
early hour we seek repose after the
WEAKNESS Of the lays doings
Friday, July ~ The City of
Duluth, new steamer of the Ward
line, has arrived during the night
and lies at the docl. 1t will take
all day to load her, and more too,
for she is to give anexcursion to a
party in the bay, in the afternoon,
who have come up fiom ST. Paul to
present her with a sci OF colors; SO
we have a full day to ourselves.
After breakfast we t,ke a tug for
Superior, across the bay six miles
distant, we believe. On our way
we pass a little tue which a couple
Of boys at home might. claim some
special ownership in, ifIthey should
see it, for it bears the familiar names
of Fred and Will" Hw different
minds will run in the sane channel
Landing at Superior, We make as
hasty a stroll about town as our
limited time will allow The city
has a population Of 600 OF 700 in
habitants. AS it has no connection,
by rail, with the outside word, its
business is utterly PROSTATE. The
inhabitants are greatly depressed in
spirit, but entertain the hope that
when they do get railroad facilities
they will command the business at
the head of the lake, by reason Of
their superior location, a hope that
IS reasonably founded, for certainly
she has cse ct the finest town sites
on the lake, and as magnificent a
harbor as The sun ever shone upon :;
while Duluth has neither, if we NAV
except the harbor she stole from
Superior-the legality Of which is
receiving an investigation from the
United States courts We will not
undertake to inform our readers of
the points al issue, in this memora-
bic controversy, for without an ac-
companylng map TO Illustrate the
situation, it would be quite difficult
to make the matter properly under
stood. We met several old ac-
quaintances in Superb, but were
forced to leave them all too soon,
by the shril whistle of the tug sum
moning us aboard, so we parted
with our friends and bade good bye
to Superior, with a heart full of sym
pathy for her III her affiiction. Mr..
Seward wrote Of unhappy Ireland,
Eshe is beautiful in her sadness, and
the sympathies of mankind assure
her a future" 1t is so with Superi-
or, we sincerely believe. Duluth is
oyersbadowing her at present, but
she Is a monStrosity and fraud.
Nature may be perverted by the GU
pidIty of man, as has been done
here, but time will make all things
right. Returning to Duluth, we
complete our observations by as
cending the heights back of the city.
The city lies on the easterly slope OF
steep, rocky bluff. The first street
Is the business portion of the city ;
two and three streets back are the
principal residences and churches,
Of which there are a number Of fine
structures. Ifman had half chance
a fine city would be reared and
maintained here; but how can it be
50, when there is not a street in the
city that can be travelled without the
greatest danger, owing to its decliv-
ity, and there is scarcely soil enough
on the out-cropping rocks, in the
entire clty, to make a respectable
potato patch. While there are many
really fine residences, they have and
can have no appropriate surround
ings, such as gardens, shrubbery,
etc. We We're told that there was
not a well in the entire city; GER
tainly, there are very few. Cisterns
are blasted out of the rocks, and
water is hauled up the bluffs, in or