Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-04-04

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I'm the Ascbi:ectuFe Of the City
Ths Excitemcnt over tho Now Ii.
! QuOr Law.
| Special Correspondence. 80.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Apri I'D, '82.
Cleveland is styled the Forest City,
but We never could See any suitability
in the name for 1t never had any sur :
rounding i'm penetrable forests, neither
Is II in dark corner nor benighted re-.
gion and might with more appropriate
ness be called the city that llghteth the
world.
Beginning with coal oil the Standard
Oil Company originated here with It's
patent process for refining petroleum,
and from men of small beginnings
their tact has placed them at the head
OF the bcsiness, having accumulated
untold millions of dollars, and virtual
y they control the trade in that com.
mOlity fJr the void and greater mo-
nopoly cannot be found, though 1t can
Justly be said that they do not extor-
ion in price and coal oil fluids furnish
light for every commercial city around
the world.
The proceeds of this large item of
export 90 to enrich the Standard Oil
Company, of Cleveland, and they con.
trol the pipe lines and refineries of the
United States.
Towering above this in importance
and popularity is the great Brush Elec-
trio Light Company that has won 80
many medals in Europe and America
Having works covering an area sec
ond TO but few in the country aud with
such facilities Is two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars behind their order.
This company has with great salts.
faction lit up Monument Square, the
Harbor, Union Depot and public house,
for the last two years, and now have
undertaken to light this business portion
of the city by a system Of light at great
elevation.
For this purpose they have erected
masts two hundred and fifty feet high
made of regular boiler iron, rivited
together in tho same manner in sections
being So inches in diameter at the base
and 6 inches at the top. There is eight
electric lights in four foot circle being
attached To a car or Carriags arranged
to elevate or lower as desired for the
purpose Of replacing the consuming
carbons.
BY means of a pulley and an endless
chain running the entire height, on the
inside of the column, the carriage refer
red TO may be moved as desired. The
cost of one of these masts Is three thous-
and dollars.
The cost Of each burner is Is to 20
cents for II hours. The character of
tho light can be judged by the fact Of
it's being strong enough to photograph
the Molum 3nt of Commodore Oliver
Perry in Monument Square at mid
night.
1t promises success, and If 80 de
mand will soon follow as 1T y thing of
beauty as we'll as utility, and every
city has laudable desire to keep up
with the impro vements of the age.
In architecture Cleveland is stepping
to the front, pulling down compare
lively good old style brick buildings of
two and three story and putting in
their place beautiful new five story
iron or s'oDe front and the large plate
glass windows
The excitement of the hour is the !
passage few days ago of the Pond
Liquor Bill. 1t 30 heavily taxes liquor
dealeIs that the saloon men are on the |
war path, moboliziug their forces to !
have it pronounced unconstitutional.
1t requires the prepay ment of tax !
OF from one to three hundred |
dollars according to the size of the
town or city making application, and !
additional to the above dle bond with |
tle Probate Judge for one thousand |
dollars, with freehold security for
double that amount.
Curbstone debaters claim that the |
law is unjust to the poor and favors the
wealthy; that its provisions will clean
out two thirds of the saloons of Cleve-
land, and those who are able to con.
tinue will reap all the profits.
That conclu sion is correct and its re-
suits inevitable hut the object of the
aw is to protect the morals of the com.
nunity and experience shows that lit.
lie low doggeries dispense more bad
and entice more young men
20 drinking and gambling than any
me else. The central thought of the
aw doubtless is to reduce the number
If dram shops as a means to reducing
he number of drunkards.
The conclusion is a logical one and
'ught to receive the support even OF
Mr.. Bayard as it is in the direct line of
lis argument on the temperance ques-
ion.
The Democratic papers here oppose it
md are bowling about Republican in
Justice; hoping by it to gain the State.
With our liberal institution it is a ques-
ion whether temperance can be sus-
aimed in States having so large per.
entage of voters of foreign birth as
)hio, who have long had large invest
nents in that line of business.
RAMBLER.
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