Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-05
The COMING MAN.
Hon. Carter Harrison Daily
Gaining Strength as a Guber-
material Candidate.
Brief Sketch of Alexander Sullivan,
President of the sh-Americsn
Land League.
Other Items of Interest FrOVa
Our Regular Correspondent

Our Regular Correspondent
cz1sAse, May l,
The pre>ent drawback to Chicago
prosperity is the brieklayers' strik,
for an advance Of wages. There is NJ
estimating the damage this unfortun
ate and i'll timed conflict between Labor
and capital will infict upon this com
munity. Building is virtually sus
pended. OF course this throws out o,
employment over 10000 persons
bricklayers, stonemasons, and theii
helpers; carpenters, painters, plaster.
ers, and their assistants; teamsters and
their assistants; brickmakers and
their helpers; and also the countless
number of persons employed in fur
nishing building supplies. This host
of people being nonproductive consti'
tute an Incubus upon business that is
paralyzing in its results. In fact,
there is.no money in common circula
ton, and, in consequence, the prospect
is very gloomy. To-day there is a
rumor that the deadlock will soon be
broken by the bosses giving the wages
demanded by the strikers.
The Calumet Club is Chicago in
stitution of much note. It's grand
reception last night in its magnificent
pew rooms fully demonstrated this.
Over 1000 guests assembled around
the bountifully laid tables, and APP
plauded the remarks Of welcome
by the president, Edssn Keith,
Esq. Gazing upon the haps
by picture presented by this i'm
mense gathering of our city's stanch-
est business men, and lovely ladies',
one would scarcely entertain the be.
lief that the most abject distress pre-,
walls in the humber walks of our
society consequent upon the strikes.
The table ware of this club is OF solid
nickel silver, and cost $4,000.
The statue monument to the muir
dered President Lincoln, to be soon
erected in Lincoln Park, Chicago,
will be of granite and bronze, and
thirty feet high.
Every day Hon. Carter H. Harrison,
Chicago's third term Mayor, is becom-
ing stronger as the foremost candidate
for nomination as the Democratic
standard bearer for Governor of Iii
nois in 1884. Last Sunday the Chicago
Times published full text of His
Honor's great speech at the Iroquois
Club banquet last month. Every one
who reads it Immediately becomes a
Harrison man. The outrageous dis
tortion of his speech, as published by
the press of the city, Immediately fol-
lowing its delivery, was calculated to
place Mr.. Harrison in an unenviable
light before the country, but since the
truthful version has appeared the
doubling Thomases" have repented
Of their hasty folly, and returned to
their allegiance, followed by countless
recruits from the ranks of all other
shades Of politics, Mr.. Harris. u S
administration Of the affairs of Chicago
for the past four years should stamp
him as a man of the finest ability. He
would not only make a splendid gov
ernor, but also a President of the
United States who would reflect honor
and credit on the nation at large.
DR. Henry Meyer is a Chicago ply
stefan of much prominence. However,
this does not prevent wagging tongues
from asserting that he has attempted
to prison his wife; also that he has
committed several murders. One of
said slsnderers is now before the
courts, at the doctors instigation, and
very sensational disclosures are prom
Used
The Chicago dime museum" is eu-
gagged in collecting band Of "beauti-
tul" women for exhibition. The
prizes are inviting and the salaries
promised large.
Austin j. Doyle, the chief of Chi
cagos police force, has taken unto
himself a wife, Miss Pauline Weiss
har, lovely and accomplished young
lady. The wedding was very exclu.
sive.
April 30, 1889, the first President
of the United States was inaugura'ed.
And yesterday, April 80, was the
ninety-fourth anniversary of the es-
adjustment of the American nation.
What wOndrous changes have taken
place since then in this country! If
the patriots Of those pioneer DAYS
could come forth from their tombs
and gaze for moment upon the mag.
ni6cent results Of the seeds of freedom
and enterprise they had sown, how
their hearts would bound with won
der, delight aud pride.
AT the railroad exhibition this
month in Chicago, one of the Oldest
locomotives in existence will be pres.
ent. 1t was brought to Pictore, Nova
Scotia, from England, in 1888, and was
made by Timothy Hackworth, at Oar.
lington, for George Stephenson. The
engineer who helped build it will also
be present. This odd looking relic OF
the past is a monster, when compared
with those Of the present. 1t sits on
three pairs Of drivers; it weighs IL
tons. 1t will draw an excursion train
during the exhibition.
Alexander Sullivan, Of Chicago
recently elected President Of the Irish
National Land League Of America /,
a young lawyer of acknowledged abil,
ity, and husband of a lady Of the fines
talent as literateur. Mr.. Sullivan. ,
few years ago, killed the principal o
Chicago school in difficulty caused
by the pedagogue rejecting upon thu
character Of Mrs. Sullivan. Like al
positive, go ahead men, Mr.. Sullivan
has enemies in Chicago, who charg
that he is no friend of the Irish. Thi