Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-07-06
The Port of Cardlil.

lEnglsh Correspondence New York Trbune.lu
The history of Cardiff during this century
is considered by Engishmen "a commercial
though it is what Americans
would call ordinary commercial progress.
AT tue opening of The presant century, eight
pages Of directory gave the list of all the
inhabitants of Cardiff. 1t will be gratifying
to know that at that early day nine of the
towns-people were styled gentry" Under
the somewhat generic head of "Physic,'
four persons described themselves as 'sur-
geons, apolhccaries and men-midwives, T"
There were five lawyers, and nearly every
one else was classified under the
head "Traders." Multitudinous char
acters were these old Welshmen,
and here again they remind one of the pio-
neers of the West. The peaceful loom is
combined with the implements of war ia the
person Of ore citizen described as a Sin en-
weaver and serjeant-major :" literature and
foresight in auother, who was 'printer,
bookseller, clerk to the marquis of Butte and
insurance agent" The fair Elizabeth Jones
was "draper, hat dealer and maltster." Her
namesake, Tom Jones, was a ''dealer in
earthen-ware and tailor" John Mogan was a
"bakcr aud mason," and Edward Whiting u
tailor and soap boiler" while John Stibbs
held the enviable position of 'peruke-mak-
er, bleeder and tooth-drawer' to the COM
munty, which then numbered less than
1000, The definition of Grader" in Cardiff
has always been a broad one, and rs late as
1880, included schoolmaslers, cashiers
of banks, auctloneers, architects or French
drawing masters, organists and music mas.
ters, book keepers and the.governors of the
Jail. At that time the population had only
reached 6lS7, and 20 years later 1s5l) onl,
1921. In 1861 it had nearly doubled in
1871 it had reached 60,000 aud to-day II
nearly 100, The beginning of this prog
rcss dltes from the construction of the cana
from Merthyr Tidvil to Cardiff the secont
period in what the population has doublct
from the construction of the docks. Within
the last 25 years over Sl5, coo 900 has beel
laid out in The construction of docks in tn
port of Cardiff. In five years 8 800, 900 ha
been expended on the Streets The value of the
exports from the port of Cardiff has increas.
ed from $4,000, 900 in 1876 to $50, 6l0, ,0O
in 1880, while the imports aggregate $4,000
900.
No town displays such strange inter
mixture of feudal lrestrction and moder
J progress as Cardiff does. The whole plac
| is practically owned by Lord Butte, who's
| annual income is. about 81, 800, ,000 an,
whose agents have become nothing short G
+ petty tyrants. When the ancestors of hi
lordship first appeared upon the scene the
( undoubtedly helped the town by some Dol
railway and dock enterprises. AT the pre-
cnt time the marquis of Butte stops the ca
, Of progress, and unless Cardiff can free itse
from Its present owner, it will never becom
T., the great port It's towns-people so deyoutl
: wish. The inhabitants appreciate this an
have recently offered to purchase the ireedol
!, OF their own docks for $12, 500, GOO from IL
. marquis. As it now is, Cardiff is Lord But
3 and Lord Butte is fanatic who wanted to |
K a monk. The public buildings, the churche
Il the houses, are either Lord Bute's or built
n Lord Butte, or in some way connected vii
h his loldship or his lordships ia,her--in 70
n Lord Butte Is indeed The tutelaiy genius
g Cardiff. The independent freeholds are