The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-07
OUR PHILADELPHIA LETTER.


! 306-ABOUT TO REAP HER REWARD
PHILADELPHIA. April 4, 1882.
! Regular Correspondence Of THE FREEMAN
DEAR HENRY-The fashion of Phil
( adelphia patiently awaits the advent of
| Easter, and its advent is being heralded
| by an unusual display of handsome offer
! ings. Certain branches of trade that
/ have been dull during the season pre-
/ scribed by the Church will be amply
/ compensated by the eagerness and avid
/ lty with which their customers will in
/ dulge their fancies and their pleasures
/ when Easter hymns shall have ushered
/ IN the commencement Of festivities.
/ Among the novelties in Easter eggs are
/ wonderful specimens in styles, sizes and
material-from the smallest humming
/ bird to the largest Ostrich-and drug
| gists are offering the newest preparation
/ for colOrlng the eggs. Easter cards and
! designs of various kinds and STYLES are
( lavishly displayed and greatly apprecia-
/ ted by the crowds that linger on the
/ thoroughfareS of the city. Easter is now
! nearly as we'll remembered as Christmas.
/ Not only Church members, but those
/ who take no interest in the religious
! part of the celebrations, have come to
/ regard it as a special season for festiyi-
/ ties. MillineTs and modestes who have
| enjoyed season of repOse are actively
/ engaged in the preparation of startling
/ novelties for the Spring season.
! CAMBRIA COUNTY AS AN IRON CENTRE.
| In the local columns of the last FREE
/ MAN [ see paragraph announcing that
/ the Cambria Iron Company, of Johns
/ town, at its last payday, had disbursed
| to its operatives at that point the large
sum of one hundred and seven thousand
D dollars 6nT~fsr
/ gress of the iron business in Cambria
/ county within the last thirty years. Less
! than thirty years ago Cambria was un-
known as an iron county, while to-day
/ IL Is noted as an iron centre. The first
/ furnace in Cambria county, Cambria
( Furnace" was built on Laurel Run. a
few miles below JOhnstown. bv George
/ ). King, David Stewart. John K, and
! William 5. ShryOck, in 1S41. It was
/ followed by Mill Creek Furnace, built
/ by John Bell & Co., and Ben's Creek
/ Furnace, built by Geo. S. King & Co.
in 1S45, and Elizabeth Furnace, on
Blacklick Greek, built by Ritter g Ro-
gers, in 1S46, and by Mount Vernon
/ Furnace, at Johnstown, built by Peter
/ LevergOOd & Co. ir 1876 1t was not.
/ however, until 1853 that the iron bust
ness began to flourish in Cambria county
through the enterprise of Geo. s. King,
the originator of the Cambria Iron
Works. To George S. King is Cambria
indebted for the development of the
minerals within its borders and for the es-
tablishment of the Cambria Iron Works.
the most extensive establishment of the
/ kind in the United States. if not the
most extensive in the world But for
the part taken by Mr.. King, the iron
} business would not have had so healthy
a growth in Cambria county.
In January, 1851, in the first number
of the second volume of the Mountain
Echo appeared an editorial stating that
I some of the enterprising citizens of
J0hnstown contemplated the erection of
glass works on an extensive scale. The
editor, in a gushing article, bid the en-
terprise God speed, and concluded his
editorial in the following words 1--WE
hope to live to see the day when the
( smoke of hundred manufactures shall
risetO Heaven from our peaceful valley" "
At shat day Cambria county had no dis
tinction in enterprises of any kind. and
not until through the enterprising efforts
of Mr.. King did Cambria county, which
is now one of the leading iron producing
counties Of a State that is the leading
iron producing State of the Union. begin
to advance in the iron business. In 1870
PENNSYLVANIA made fraction over fifty
per cent. of all the iron and steel made
by all the States and Territories, and in
1SS0m fraction under fifty per cent.
of all the iron and steel produced by all
the States and Territories, and Cambria
county herself produced nearly thirty
per cent. of the product of Pennsylvania.
OF the 1905. 40 tons of iron and steel
the total product of all the States and
Territories in 1880, PENNSYLVANIA pro-
duced 3.616.669 tons, of which Cambria
produced 26O. .140 tons. The Echo man
has lived to witness what he in 1851
hoped TO see a table of statistics of
the iron and steel productions Of the
United States. prepared hv James NJ.
Swank. Esq. Secretary Of he American
Iron and Steel AssOcia' 'on. presents
many features that are ling and in
teresting Penntylvania has long been
the hOnored leader of her sister States in
contributing to the variety and quantity
of American iron products, and little
( Cambria stands Fourth in the class of The
iron-prOducing counties of the State.
CORRUPT GOVERNMENT.
The culpable mismanagement Of the
Republican party does not admit of con-
cealment. nor does it admit of defense OF
excuse. The corruption Of the Republi
can government of Philadelphia had
: reached TO SuCn stage InaJ Jn6 lnSJlncI
of seIf-preseTvation drove honest Repub
licans into the establishment of politi
cal Vigilance Committee to hang III
their own plunderers, and the corruption
at Harrisburg in the administration ot
State affairs was equally bad. WheT
there is no question or doubt about the
Republican party having given us dis
honest government will not the people
of Pennsylvania change their public ser
wants E? The Republicans of the State
have furnished the Democrats with g
battle cry. The issue is now "Honest
Government " Let the Democracy o.
= Pennsylvania now put in the field fol
Governor an honest candidate and take
up the cry for honest government. The
people of Pennsylvania are ripe for {
change, and only await the opportunity
to vote for a proper Democratic candi
date for Governor. The people of Penn
sylvania want better government thar
Republicanism gives them, and there j:
now a chance for Democratic success
The Democracy of this grand old com
: monwealth can put itself in the strong
est possible attitude if its leaders have
wisdom. If the delegates to the Demo