The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-03-14

prisons, etc., S'J,ooo, ,ooo, and lntox-
icating liquors, s before said, 81
474,0O0,e00.
The state ~. .Sts,sy ylvaaia spent
during the year 1870, for liquors of
all kinds, Sl52, ,663, ,495 and for
schools and teaching, IS, ,863, 729.
She had engaged in the liquor bust
ness, 49, 800 persons, 6,87O school
teachers, and $4,000 criminals
tour-fitths of whom were made by
strong drink.
The city Of Philadelphia had T.
100 drinking places, and spent for
intoxicating drinks $4,000, 900 in
one year. Chicago had $500 liquor
saloons, and spent for Intoxicating
liquors sl4,0O0,0OO. Newark had
864 drinking saloons, and spent. for
strong drinks S4,50O,O0O.
The city Of New York had 1000
licensed drinking saloons, which, if
placed in rows in direct lines, would
make a street like Broadway 13
miles long. She spent for in oxica-
ting liquors $60,OO0,OOO during the
year 1870, and there were employed
in the business 1000 persons. She
had $50 churches and chapels, and
there were engaged in preaching
and teaching the public and private
schools 5000 persons, all of which
to support cost S4,5OO,O0O. The to-
tai sum invested in the liquor busi-
ness of all kinds amounted to Sl4O,-
100000; in the manufacturing bust
ness $50, ,000,0 900; and the banking
business $8o,ooo,ooO. The police
department cost S3,ooo,ooo, and in
public amusements $4,000 were
spent. The meat bill was $50, ,ooo,-
600; flour bill $4,000, 900, and the
daily consumption of beer was 4o,-
600 kegs. There were 900 az
rests for intoxication and disorderlv
conduct, and 10000 persons were
in institutions under care of the
Commissioners of Public Charity.
THAT " WHIRL WIND OF WRAI TIL"
The writer hereof came up from
Wisconsin on Wednesday, without
having ever heard of that "whirl-
wind Of wrath'' which the Press says
is raging in the State, because Gov.
Taylor, IN compliance with a decis-
ion of the Attorney General of the
United States, had granted certif-
Gates to the Wisconsin Central
Railroad for lands donated by Con
gresS on four sections Of It's road,
indisputably completed in accord
ance with law. Instead Of a "whirI-
wind" there was not even a zephyr
outside of one or two Carpenter or
gans, who were working their bel
lows In the hope Of creating a wind,
but the effort was driving their craft
backwards instead of forwards.
The practical sense Of farmer Tay-
lor is proving too much for the mere
spectators and politicians. He has
settled III a moment what years of
contention failed to accomplish. AS
earl y as 1854 the grant in question
was made to the State to offer as
subsidy; and at various times has
been voted to different companies,
no one OF whom would accept it,
and build the proposed line of road.
The reason of this was that a mar
row belt of country lying between
Portage City and Stevens Point,
but eighty miles in length, is little
else than hopeless barren, without a
village, hamlet, or scarcely a farm
III its whole extent while the strip is
densely settled on both sides. The
Chicago and Northwestern Compa-
ny run their line eastward Of 1t, by
way Of Fond du Lac and Oshkosh,
many years ago. On the west side,
the Wisconsin Valley road has late
ly been completed from Tomah to
Grand Rapids The Milwaukee and
st. Paul roads skirt it on tie south,
three distinct lines connecting at
Portage City. On the north the
Green Bay d Winona road crosses
at Stevens Point, leaving the Wis
consin Central which has now OBJ
tanned the certificates, to strike the
line from Menasha, running north
west to Ashland and Superior.
The question to be settled then
was-atter twenty years effort to
donate so much of the grant as lay
between Portage City and Stevens
Point, without success-how to be-
stow the balance so as to secure a
road north, and develope that end
of the state. The Central solved
the problem by actually building
upon the line, and for doing which
it received certificates securing it
the land. The Governor, as we
know, deeply synpathizes with set