The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-07-02
A Grand Pile of Masonry and
Mechanism One of the Com
pletest and Most Magnifi-
cent Hotels in the Country.
IT'S OWNERS, MANAGERS AND IT'S
APPOINTMENTS.

times during the process of Its completion,
which has occupied number of months,
but has not received that complete notice
which it deserves and which would give
the public an idea what it really is. AS the
st. Charles hotel its reputation has reached
over the country wherever travellers went
and it has always maintained its position IN
the favor of the travelling public; but
as "The Halliday House" it is entitled to
take its place among the first hotels in the
United States, for the improvements that
have been made in it make it in every re-
spect equal to the best and grandest nsti-
tuition of its kind in the land. 1t is six
stories high, has amansard roof, contains one
hundred and twenty rooms besides offices,
ETC., and occupies nearly whole square.
Standing in close proximity to the Illinois
Central railroad and the Union passenger
depots and also at the river front, it is most
convenient to the travelling public and, in
appearance, is undeniably the handsomest
building in the city, of which every citizen
is justly proud.
1t has received its present name from its
owners, the Halliday Brothers, one of the
oldest and most substantial firms in the
city, which has extended its operations into
various directions and has been uniformly
and eminently successful in all. 1t, more
than any other single firm at present in the
city, has given Cairo's commerce and Cal
ro's name vigorous boost, doing much
toward the prominence and respect she now
enjoys everywhere, and it is only to be re-
GREETED that there are not three or four
more just such firms IN the city.
A city may be situated upon natural
highway of approach from every
quarter of the world; it may be the gate
through which the irresistible stream of
commerce could be forced to pass and it
may be in possession of untold millions Of
wealth-and yet, in spite of all this, it may
never achieve the greatness and commercial
Importance to whichlt would seem to be
entitled. And why? Simply because it
may, even under such circumstances lack
business enterprise, that potent characteristic
of all truly prosperous communities; it
may lack men, large Drained, active, bold,
firm, who will not be found among the
drones even to take needed repose; men
who will stake what they have upon a
venture, hoping not only, but working,
with both mind and muscle,
to realize legitimate profit.
Lacking such men, a citys natural high
way may be allowed to become INSTRUCTED
by the bulworks of narrow speculation; the
stream of commerce may be permitted to
seek its own course, enriching other fields,
and the wealth that is in the city may be
boarded and its possessors exc out a miser-
able existence in mud hut. Cairo is sit
uated upon great natural highway; it is
the gate through which the stream of a
nations commerce can be made to pass, and
1t has wealth; but, in connection with all
these advantages, it has also the men who
understand them, who are able to use them
to their own and to the city's greatest ad-
vantage, and chief among these men are
the subjects of this paragraph, the Halliday
Brothers. They have risen to their present
position as the leading business firm in
this part Of the country by their
own good judgment and indomitable
energy, which lead them to sec
Cairo's advantages, the manner in which
they could best be developed and used, and
to pursue the work of developing them
with uninterrupted effort. The various in
dustries into which they have extended
their operations bear in their management
the unmistakable impress Of master hand
guided by clear, experienced mind, tina
lays Its plans nicely ana brings them, II
every instance, to a successful issue. 1t Il
through its own prosperity that tn
firm has contributed so much t
Cairos wealth and Cairo's growth
The firms operations are not con
fined to this city alone. They own ant
operate salt mine and coal mine at 81
Johns, Illinois, in which they employ hun
dreds Of men, and the products of whic
they send to nearly every state IN the Union
Here in Cairo they conduct commission
business that requires immense warehouse
and railroad, river and telegraph facilities
coal yard for steamboats,, with all the ne
cessary water craft; the Egyptian milli
the largest Touring mill in the state, havini
capacity Of seven hundred barrels pc
day; they are largely interested in the Git
National Bank, financially one Of the mos
substantial institutions in the Unite'
States; in the box and basket factory
which sends its goods to nearly every frui