Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-03-07

Is very evident, among many sslssarv
never known be-vav b,y .o,,,;;orio,,,, -


mercle1hse s,,e,, EiCt7zragged it about
his floors, aid when he saw the people
fiocking pe st his store to those where the
wet goods game was being played, his
rage knew no bounds: He resolved to
give the coup de grace to the whole hum
bug, and took his revenge on his enterpFis-
ing rivals and the fockng people at one
swoop, f.y painting a huge sign for his
store fr ont, bearing the inscription: Goods
net to order at short notice"
sUBTERRANEAN MONSTER.
Flown beneath the pavements on Spruce
str eet, there is, painting away day and
N ght, every hour in the year, a huge iron
3 lave, running his giant arms out beneath
sidewalks, across streets, under massive
I buildings and blocks, grinding away Sam
son-like in his dark prison house, per-
feet marvel of strength, and without a
parallel on the Continent if on
| the Globe. He grips with one of his long
| fingers the Bullock presses of Horace Gree
| ley's greatest monument, and throws off
/ 1000 Tri6uneS anfhoar from each of the
several presses under the famous Tall Tow
er. With another, he grasps the Tightening
presses of the paper which ''shines for all,
| and prints hundred thousand Suns be-
| fore you have tasted your morning coffee.
| Down Spruce street runs another giant
| arm which turns out the monstrous edition
of the N Y. Ledger; another drives the
presses of the Sunday Dispatch, another
runs down into John Scott's cellars and
prints oyer forty weekly papers Of lesser
| fanR. To both sides Of Spruce, both sides
I of FRANKFORT, both sides of William and
! one side of Beekman, yet other arms stretch
| out and run hundreds OF devices for print
ing, ruling, cutting, perfOratiDg and bind
ing in that busy nest OF types. and card
boards fronting on and adjacent to Print
ing House Square.
His fires never 60 out; almanaes and
clocks, seasons and cycles, dynastics and
electoral com mission are not for him. He
heard the booming guns at Sumter and
told the world what they meant, but his
painting quickened not. Lee laundering
at the gates of Gettysburgh, ana Lee sur
rendering at AppomattOx were one to this
slave. He heard the tramp OF armed men
above his head in '61, and listened in '65
to the heavier tread Of thinner ranks bear
ing back those tattered, riddled banners,
which make the yariest dOtaTd'S blood tin
gle in his veins as he looks. he saw Tweed's
daughter wearing diamonds for shoe but
tons, and looking again saw the dethroRed
| robber diving bv inches in felOn's cell,
nor this nor that meant anything to him.
| Old Time, to whom we mortals bow most
reverentially, looks down through these
grmy gratings and gets no more attention
than contemptuOus puff Of steam in his
face. This is the slave of Commerce not
of Time. he knows no law but the demands
of Trade, and acknowledges no master
else.
Twenty years ago a printer owning
( iob
than he needed, began furnishing power
to his neighbors. They quickly found it
cheaper to take a shaft from him than buy
and operate an engine for themselves, and
the business grew rapidly. This is the
very heart of the printing business Of Go
| than. Within space of eighty acres is
more capital invested in types and their
accessories than in half of all America.
| 1t was a rare field for such an enterprise
! A stock company was formed with $780, 600
capital, every dime of it represented in the
engines, boilers and shafting. Great pa
| pers like the Tribune, Sun and Ledger
| found it cheaper to buy power than to
| generate it, and though they have engines
of their own, they hold them only as re-
serves in case of accident No accident
has occurred these twenty years. fire
| pump of immense power has been attached
/ to these engines, a thousand feet of hose
are always ready for use; men are at haud
every hour of the twenty-four, and repeat
edly have turned the full power OF these
mighty engines upon the pumps and put
out dangerous fires before even our alert
| Fire Department could reach the spot.
The chained slave has saved his master
nearly half million OF money in this way,
to say nothing of the ayerted disorganiza-
ton of business from fire. MORLEY.
New York, March 4th, 1879. '''