The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-02-24

III Ottawa will pay the bill ana invite the
county to o dance aud banquet Ia the court
rooms, II would be o very nice thing, and In
case there should be any surplus fund after
the dedication IL finished. no one would OBJ
feet to the county seat appropriat.ng 1t for
the benefit OF public library; The conn
" wi have done its duty when 1t pays Tor
the Court House. Ottawa can have clock
and banquet and q Fourth OF July dedlca-
ton, aud other ornamental and to her possi-
bly, useful appendages, II she wants them,
hut she must pay the bills"
The Young Ladies' will doubtless send the
Press q dead head for this, but there Is no
law to compel It's use.
| The Young Ladies' are III earnest. They
are trying to do a good work. The whole
county will be benefited by the library, II IT.
is placed In the new building, as 1t should
be. They aim also 10 dedicate the new build.
| ing in handsome manner, as 1t would be by
any community Of ladies and gentlemen. 1t
10 always customary to charge q round price
for tickets on such occasions. No one 10 COM
! pollod to attend. or to buy tickets. The Ia.
dies are doing the work without hope Of per-
sonal compensation OF any Kind.
| 1t does look as though the man who pen
ned the above extracts had had an uncon-
scionable belly. ache In nursing. He ought,
however, to have the grace to keep his vul.
gar agony to himself, and not intlict 10 sec.
ond.han on his unsuspecting readers.
An iron bridge near Grand Ridge, during
the recent food, was chained to telegraph
pole dorm stream! An iron bridge that will
float, and up stream at that, ought to be tied.
-Rspubliean.
That's nothing. a West Side man, to save
his house from floating around the lot,
anchored it to u gooseberry bush with the
log chain bound around the chimney OF the
house
The sand which the De5teigcr Glass Co., OF
this city, have been using, We believe, comes
from near Ottawa, but only because 1t can
there be dug from the canal bank and conve.
nicntly loaded on barges. II costs about
so cents to ship ton OF coal from La Sale
TO Ottawa, and OF course about the same from
Streator to Ottawa. The presumption Is, nc.
cording to the Free 7rader, that La Sale and
StreatOr coal operators are In the habit of
paying the Ottawa manufacturers bonus
for taking their coal of their hauds.--Io Sale
Pres.
It can never cost more to haul coal from
Streator to Ottawa than from La Sale to Of
tawa, at regular rates, or the Burlington's
lease OF the Fox River Line Is forfeited.
Now, IS a 10 after OF fact, our glass furnaces
use dust ~ fuel. Dust in Streator Is so plen.
tiful that how to get rid OF it 10 the only So.
rIous problem. 1t costs nothing, really.
Strcator mines 10 In a measure pay "Ottawa
glass men q bonus for taking their coal of
their hands" For once, Mr.. Press. you have
stated the truth.
If La Sale is so advantageous a glass
making point, why has factory never sue
ceeded there? Every attempt at glass making
there has been failure. Isn't that true?
Factories have been run by stock companies,
on the cooperative plan, and by individuals,
with union labor and with scabs, and with
Belgians, with pot furnaces and with a
tank, and one after another, as regular
as clock work, the institution has failed.
Glass making has been tried In La Sale TOR
30 or IS years, and has, under every kind OF
management, been q Jai'srs.
! The Siemeus Glass Company will erect, Of
the point at which it locates, a factory for the
manufacture Of the brick and fire clay block.
! OF which the tanks are constructed, and al
the tanks erected by stockholders OF the com
pany will get their supplies from that facto
| ry While the syndicate may not locate
here, the people Of La Sale feel confident
that at present their chances for getting the
prize arc at least equal TO those OF Ottawa
La Sale Press.
! Two weeks ago the La Sale papers had the
great s., 600, 900 establishment located there.
Considering that no united public effort has
been made on the part OF Ottawa. the above
sounds peculiar. TO say the least