The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-12-03
CHICAGO BURSTS FORTH


Chicago-An Excited Railroad Presidents
Views.
CHICAGO, Noy. I6.-Peopie herecs!i New |
York the Chicago of,he Ea t. 1 osll Chi |
csgo the intellectual centre of the world for
cheap living and shabby sidewalks. You
can now board at the pslatial Palmer House
for two dollars and half day. Iest=r-
sisy an bone.i old Granger from ] ows gruIn-
bled even at tina: price. Then the accommo-
dating Mr.. Palmer threw of tie tive dollars,
remarkirg:
Il don't mind throwing of the Two dci-
lsrs, Mr.. Hall, but feel q little profession
al pride in sticking 10 the fifty cent?"
The interesting topics discussed IN CEica-
40 a. pressn, are the advent Of Gen. Saa'er,
who hss come TO prepare The city for new
confagratioD, the ascension Of Horace White,
and tie resurrection of oseph Medill in the
Tribune eff K. Tie new Baltimore & Ohio
railroad connection with Chicago, which has
frightened Commodore Vanderbilt, and
President Jewe,f, Of the Erie, a; the COM
mercial prosperity OF Baltimore at the ex-
pense of New Yors. i. also being discus ed
ION Change"
Yesterday ] called on Mr. MedilI, the edi-
tor Of the Tribune He il 4 bristley, cad.-
verous-Iooking man OF about fifty. His
mouth is large like Schuyler Col!ax's, fore
head peaked, and slrmounted with long,
coarse, brown hair. Mr.. Medili isquite deaf,
and to make him hear had to get close to
his ear and shout. Even then ] didn't suc-
coed in making myself heard.
commenced by shouting at Mr.. Meiill's
hand, which was carried inlo sounding
board behind his ear:
SLIGHTLY MIXED.
"We understand in the EIs; Mr.. Meuili,
that you have come back from Europe ID
get the gone -astray Tribune back i5tD the
Republican pastuEe?"
well, yes; the weather is iine Tor No
yember-very, cir ~
And that you and Minister Washburne
fixed it Up in Paris that you were to bring
the Tribune out for him 10 the next Plesi
Dental contest" continued.
well, yes, the winter j. a little back
ward, Mr.. Perkins, but"
''Blt the story that yen are to support
Grant is not true?"
STORY true, cir. Nc, sir. Story IS one
OF the falsest and mos: unreliable ING in
vsrsaiioa went on. Q
4
GiiI's friends, is to be strongly Republican,
but it is not going 10 support Grant for a
third term. 1t will be heavy, solid, re-
sponsible newspaper, but will lack the esprit
of the Times.
Mr.. Medill thought that Mr.. Beecher
would come out all right in the ED; and
when 1 told him had long talk with him
at his residence in Brooklyn on Saturday
l. l.
a5ont the great preacher.
"Mr. Beecher seemed Just as anxious to
know about you and the Tribune As You are
to know about him, for Mr.. White cid him
immense damage" remarked. u
''Yes, but l guess we'll let him r5st
now" said Mr.. Medill mournfully; 'bu'.
by the way, how does Bsecher feel about
having Ben Butler against him|'
''He told me Butler would have plenty o,
time TO attend 10 Moulton's case now, but
Ben, says Beecher, always makes SO many
bluuders, and creates go much prejudice
against his own case, that l rather Ike the
idea of having him on the other side"
TIE RAILROAD THAT HURTS NEW YORK.
This morning the 6rst train runs over the
railroad just completed by the Baltimore e
Ohio road from Chicago 10 Baltimore. The
work was commenced in 1870. The project
iills Chicago and Baltimore with JOY, but it
IL bad fer New York. No wonder that Pres
ident Jewett of the Erie, Vanderbilt Of the
New York Central, and Tom Scot. of the
Pennsylvania raiiro,d are struck with con-
s.ernation.
The Baltimore & Ohio can now kill
Vanderbilt and the Northern lines" said
railroad President to me len minutes ago.
How Kill Vardsrbilt?" asked.
"Why, the new line from Chicago 10
Baltimore is 1872 miles shorter than the New
York Central or Erie line 70 New York. |
The B4ltimore d Ohio railroad can carry
ireigh; SO cheap that the New York Gen. |
tral and Erie roads would Stare at il. |
The Baltimore q Ohio railroad can carry
freight from Chicago TO Baltimore fer 25 |
ceats hundred and make money. while the
present rate is So CENTS
"Ecw can they carry freight 20 much
cheaper than thNother roads?" | asked.
why, the liabilities of the Hudson River
and New York Central, on which interest
must be paid, are Sill, 10000 The liabil-
lilies Of the Erie are Sl26,COO,O0O, and the
Pennsylvania Central, Tom Scott's road.
stands an Ill COG, 900, while the liabilities of
". L
coo, coo. Can't a forty -miliion dollar road ,l32
miles shorter, kill e-hundred-and-seyen-
teen million dollar one-can't il? | should
say it could" ard this rational President
brought his hand down on the table col
thump.
what other advantages has BaI,imore?,
| asked.
Why, Eli, don't you know New York
has been asleep Tor five years? Don't Won
know your real estate has shrunk forty per
cent, while Baltimore has been growins?l
Don't You know that Baltimore has splendid
grain elevators, and New York has none?
Don't you know that Vanderbilt ard the
Erie and Tom Scott have had their hands
on the threats of Chicago, Toledo, Buffalo.
and New York and all the Northern cities
along their railroad routes? Don't you ,
know that they have Handicapped New York
commerce with their millions dollar railroad I
deb.s, while Indianapolis and Baltimore,
with the solvent, economical Baltimore and
Ohic, have been at work building elevators, ,
'cean steamship lines, and making cheap {
reights, till New York has lost her prestige?
rs thir,y-three cents per hundred for corn a
rom indianapolis to Baltimore all the time,
nd 'hirty-eight cents from Chicago to New {
FORK over Vanderbilt. Indianapolis is the
entire OF the corn basin, and how could To.
edo and Chicago draw corn hun bred miles r
orth and then pay these high tolls, because il
ancertllrs railroad, which coat S35,0O0,- g
OO, has been watered up TO Sill, O00, 900? 4
WHAT NEW YORK MUST DO.
This seventy-.wo millions of dead weight !;
this seventy-two millions of wa.ered \
lock on the Central-is killing New York. =
ut nov, the bubble has burst, Chicago has =
urst OF, too. The Baltimore & Ohio will -
I The gram out Of Chicago to the sea. II (
lew York wants her real estate to swell !,
ack again she must give Us as cheap rates !. :.
! Baltimore. She mus: furnish big eleva. =,
rs on her end of the Erie -
"Has Chicago been damned up?' Z
'ked. n
YES, cir, che has; she has suffered with is
ew York. Why, Chicago and Toledo have ~ y,
zen jealous of indianapolis for a wear. "
'e've seen her real estate doubling up, seen
n elevators building, seen Baltimore do. :;
& the same, and New York has been dam T.
ed mp with us. Now we have bnrs. on. ~
1t New York is still blockadei. Oar corn ~
Is to Baltimore, and New York can die y. "a
lder the s,upendous weight of Vanderbilt. e.
ID the bond-ridden :oil-ga.es of the Erie =.
d Tom Scott" pa
Ny railroad friend was excised, but he w
ont good deal OF truth. New York il
ying tribute to 6cticious oapitsl, and un- y.
IS your existing trunk lines can take the I.'
ater out of their stock and get down to a OK OK
rd-pan baeis like the Baltic,ore & Ohio W