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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-03-07
To the Northwest and the Far West

No highway of travel has: received more
flattering notices from the public than the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul Railway,
the pioneer short line and the popular route to
the Northwest and the Far West. Whether
ones Mecca be Omaha, St. Paul, Minneap-
oils or Dakota, on the different branches of
this much travelled thoroughfarc, or even if
ones destination be to points still more re-
mote it presents, without doubt the great
est advantages to the traveller in his west
ward course. Apart from its excellent road.
bed, its fine coaches and the grand ssenery
through which it passes, its dining ears and
service are probably the most sumptous of
any railroad in the world. Indeed, the west
ern lines, and notably the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and 81. Paul, fairly lead their eastern ri
walls in the matter of comforts administered to
their passengers. So that with statistics TO
show ones life is safer in the average railway
train than when sitting in ones home or
when attending to ones legitimate business,
the traveller who places himself under the
guardianship of well regulated railway may
prosecute his journey with feeling of Sc
curity and comfort as great as when reclining
in his armchair amid his own HareS 3 penafeS.
For the benefit of those desiring to emigrate
to Dakota and other localities in the North
west and Far West, the Chicago Milwaukee
Il st. Paul Railway Company has published
an illustrated pamphlet full of common sense
facts and valuable information and statistics,
which will be sent free of charge, by address,
ing a. V. III. Carpenter. General Passenger
Agent. Milwaukee,, Wis.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-03-07
IESTEY. MIG 'C0. WEST HAVEN. MICH. 2s15s

a city so much as low basis of rates for
shipping manufactured goods. Having a
full set of freight tariffs Of all the roads in
the country, the cost of transportation is
known TO shippers and consignecs, and in
case. of Ovcrchargcs claims in proper shape
are presented to the road at fault and an
early settlement effected.
TIE CITY As A WHOLE
is deeply interested IN maintaining the
Freight Bureau ~ IN Involvement for other
manufacturing enterprises to locate here.
A new firm has just bought a fine site
and will Immediately erect large planning
mill and dry kilns bringing in lumber
from the pine districts, and after asserting
drying etc, ship to the East. South and
West. besides maintaining large lumber
yard for supplying the necessities Of home
consumption.
The citizens are alive to the value at
tached to the location here of new manu-
featuring enterprises. In the past they
have given substantial aid and encourage
ment by the donation of land for manu-
featuring sites, and also rendered handsome
bonuses to
A NUMBER OF NEW INDUSTRIES.
There is not doubt that any new note
worthy enterprise would be treated libcr-
ally rs above specified by the citizens and
the City Council. should capitalists seek
investments here.
chair factory is very much needed; 30
is a paper mill, as an abundance of straw
and nice, clean water, are obtainable. A
large machine shop and foundry would
find Owosso desirable point SO would
almost any enterprise that has for its object
the utilization Of the hard wood that is so
prolific III this section. Coal can be de-
livcred TO the factory at 81. IS per ton--an
important item in the cost of manufactured
goods. Skilled labor can also be obtained,
and this. with the near cOntiguity of Owes
so to the timber and iron regions. makes
this city pre-cminently u great natural
manufacturing center.
a patent matchmaking machine indus
try will locate here in the spring. One Of
these machines with the aid of three men
will manufacture 5000 matches per min
ute. Under the old process now in vogue
1t takes fifteen men to turn out 4 900 match
es in the same time. A wooden mill will
prove profitable venture, as a four story
brick building now unoccuped. ON the
banks Of the Shiawassce River. can be util.
lied for the production of wooden goods.
Besides the above, manufacturers will be
materially assisted in building cheaply, as
u superior brick is manufactured here, hav-
ing an extensive home consumption, and
also being shipped to various sections Of
the State.
To give the multitude of reader of the
Inter Ocean who arc interested in develop
ing manufacturing enterprises, and CAPT
talists DESTROYS of employing their money
in profitable channels, an adequate idea Of
the extent OF some Of the manufacturing
industries, your representative called upon
The managers of the Estey Manufacturing
Company and asked permission TO glance
through their mammoth workshops. This
request was courteously accccded to by
Mr.. ID. M. Estcy,
PRESIDENT OF TEE COMPANY.
who escorted the inquisitivc scribe through
heir immense establishment.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-03-07

lis, charging the commercial interests of
the State, enriching its inhabitants and
placing in the advanced plane OF progress
It's status as wealth producing section.
During the past three or four years two
large furniture firms, one employing over
$50 men, and the other over. 100, one bur
| ial case factory, having extensive brick
buildings completed In 1883, and when
| fully under way will empty over 100 men
1.-TWO large sash, door and blind factories,
one of which has just received orders for
three carloads of sash and doors from
Port Huron, and number of carload or
| ders from Eastern and Southern States;
/ two large extension-table factories, which
are fast increasing their facilities and bust
ness; an excelsior factory, which ships in
carloads to Chicago and all principal
towns in Michigan; one handle and one
spoke factory, besides several minor man.
ufactOries using some of the abundant sup
| ply of timber. Several foundries and ma
chine shops, one of which Bailey Manu-
featuring Company came from LockpOrt,
N. Y, about u year ago. and after canvass
ing the country at large finally settled up
on Owosso as having the best facilities for
the manufacture of cast iron. lathes. and
other machines upon which they hold pat
cnts
With the opening OF the North Michigan
Road to Frankfort on Lake Michigan, 9th
or iron furnaces will he accessible. Lake
Superior charcoal pig iron can now be had
from Detroit and the upper peninsula, via
Mackinaw and Michigan Central Railroad,
at very
LOW COST OF TRANSPORTATION.
and Owosso, with its fine building loca-
tions for manufacturing purposes, possess
es advantages enjoyed by no other town in
Michigan, and probably not in the United
States, for manufacturing all commodities,
from wood and iron, or the two combined,
including of course agricultural implc-
ments. The principal manufacturers
! Jointly realizing the fact that the only en-
barge they have experienced in years past
has been in getting rates of freight rs low
AS any other towns with which they com
pete Grand Rapids especially, several
months ago established IA freight bureau
so-called, with b. o. Williams. Jr., an eX
perenced railroad man, rs manager. fOi
the purpose Of getting through rates TO AL
towns in the United States instead of being
subjected to local rates, and it is very sat
isfactory TO know that great deal has al
ready been accomplished.
The town now has Lansing rates on bus
mess to and from all Eastern States baseC
on Chicago, which makes the tariff lower
than possessed by Grand Rapids. To {
great many points in Ohio, Indiana anC
Illinois they have Grand Rapids rates. anC
in the near futurcwill have II through tar
ilf to all the towns to which through rates
are made.
There is nothing that assists 10 build NJ
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-03-07

best of cork, pine, hard and soft maple,
ash and elm. also white and rcd oak in
large quantities only IL few miles distant.
A brief review of the Importance Of the
new railroad and the country it travcrses
will prove of interest 10 those seeking for
an excellent manufacturing point. The
Toledo, Ann Arbor and Northern Michi-
gan Railway Company w5s organized
about year ago for the purpose Of build
ing line of railway from South Lyon via
Owosso 60 Frankfort, fine harbor OH
Lake Michigan. At Soutl Lyon connec-
ton is made with the Toledo, Ann Arbor
and Grand Trunk Railroads for Toledo,
and a fine connection for Detroit is here
secured by means of the Detroit, Lansing
and Northern Railroad. Eventually the
two lines, viz. the Toledo, Ann Arbor and
Grand Trunk and the North Michigan will
be consolidated, the same stockholders con
trolling the two companies.
The Southern division runs through the
finest agricultural district in Michigan, and
that portion already in operation and now
known as the Toledo, Ann Arbor and
Grand Trunk Railway as result Of its
ZINE TERMINAL FACILITIES
AZ Toledo. and the alliances resulting from
occupying joint depot grounds at Toledo
with the three great Ohio coal roads trans
ported TO Michigan consumers last year
300, 600 tons Of coal. This traffic, togeth-
CT with a large returning lumber traffic
and the trade ordinarily tributary to road
running through fine agricultural coun-
try. with such thrifty towns AZ Dundee.
Milan, Ann Aibor and South Lyon makes
this an excellent paying piece of property
The Northern division will have tribut-
airy 10 il the largest belt Of pine land and
soft-wood timber left in Michigan. For
more than 100 miles the road is located on
the ridge dividing the waters flowing east
and west and through dense forests This
timber must necessarily be transported
wholly by rail. A road so located, and
having but few competitive points, owning
ample terminal facilities in n market and
railroad center like Toledo, ought to prove
a successful and dividend paying road
The citizens of Owosso. being largely in
terested in manufacturers requiring large
amounts of timber. arc watching with
great interest the rapid and satisfactory
progress of the work of construction, UNI
der the supervision Of J. NJ. Ashley, Jr.,
General Manager.
Owosso is great manufacturing city,
measured relatively by the number Of its
inhabitants. II Is destined to become ulti-
mately one Of the largest manufacturing
centers of the State. The existence of
such a multiplicity of manufactures has n
broad and deep significance. The location
Of so many factories in city creates tie
mand for manufacturers supplies of all
descriptions. and the increased business
from year TO year signifies also an increase
of skilled operative labor. and necessarily
the
ENHANCEMENT or COMMERCIAL ENTER
PRIsEs,
the advancement of the general interests of
the city and the consequent upbuilding of
the community. leading in the course of
time to the transformation of an infantile
city to the vigorous growth and full dcvd-
opment Of a-grcst manufacturing mctropo- !
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-03-07
OWOSSO.

IT'S PROSPECTS AND BUSINESS ENTER
PRIsEs AS SEEN BY CoRREsPoN-
DENT OF THE CHICAGO INTER
OCEAN.
Owosso, the gateway of a productive
agricultural region and the seat of -four
ishing manufacturing center, is rich in
historic legends Of the early periods when
the wild, untutored sons of the forest made
this section their home and local habita-
ton. The Chippewas regarded this famed
portion of the State as the abode of all that
is beautiful and attractive in nature, and
when returning from The chase or from the
more brutal and sanguinary fields of saw
age slaughter, they came hither, where,
amid the undulating fields of waving grass
cs, the impctuous onward, rushing, crystal
currents of the Shawassee River, the mar
gin of its banks fringed with the golden
tinted foliage of natures inimitable piano.
rama. and surrounded by the stately trees
of the forest with the ccrulean canopy of
the celestial armament above them, they
smoked the pipe of peace and reveled in
enjoyment. Charming scenes like these
irresistibly attracted them to this lovely
section and held them captive bound by
tho omnipotcnt sway of natures majestic
grandeur.
Wasso, noted Indian chief from whom
this city derives its name, lived here in bar
barrie splendor and many years after his
death the letter o was prefxed to Wasso
for the sake of euphony.
Owes 20 is city of over four thousand
inhabitants, located at the junction of the
Michigan Central, Detroit Grand Haven
and Milwaukee, and Toledo, Ann Arbor
and North Michigan Railroads. The city
is seventy miles from Detroit, seven
ty-nine from Grand Rapids, twenty seven
from Lansing (the State capitaD, sixty-five
from Jackson, thirty-six from Saginaw,
and fifty one from Bay. City. 1t is
THE MOST CENTRALLY LOCATED
of any city in Michigan. beautifully situat
ed on the banks of the Shiawassee River
with fine water power, soft coal mines
with unlimited supply for manufacturing
and domestic purposes, sold at extremely
three miles from this point.
In addition 10 the already unequalled
ADVANTAGES possessed ly Owofso as a man
ufactur.ng and numerical center. the
North Michigan Railroad which is fast
nearing completion. will open up The bes
timber lands Of all kinds in the State. The
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-03-07
A Remarkable .Escape.

Mrs. Mary A. Daley, of Tunkhannock,
Pa, was afflicted for six years with Asthma
and Bronchitis, during which time the best
physicians could give no relief Her life
was despaired of, until in last October she
procured bottle of DR.. Kings New Dis
covery, when immediate relief was felt, and
by continucing its use for short time she
was completely cured, gazing in flesh 50 lbs.
in few months.
Free Trial Bottles Of this certain cure of
all Throat and Lung Diseases at ORsBoRN
BROS Drug Store. Large Bottles 81. 90,
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-03-07

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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-03-07

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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-09

Tybee. Nov 5. 700 p m-Passed up, steam
ships Laurestina tBr), VIM Crane.
Passed out, steamships Southwold (Br),
Dessoug, barks Franklin Nor, Hosten Nor
Norden Nor.
At anchor, outward bound, schr Mary b
Judge.
tBr), Ararat tNor), L G OBJ, Sandvik
(Sw).
Wind NE, light: fair.
New York, Nov CARVED, schr c Evans
EndicOtt, Fernandina.
Cleared, schr Wilson & Hunting, Mayport
Fla.
Sailed, steamship Normanton (Br), Savan-
nah.
Girgenti, Oct sl-sailed, bark Luizi Rug
giero Utah, Port Royal.
Queenstown, Nov CARVED. steamer
Clleveden lBrl, Graham, Coosaw for Stettin
Liverpool, Nov Clark Twilight (Br)
Du n, hence for Pensacola has returned.
Newport News, Va. Nov 6-Salled, steam
ship Laurestina (Br), Smith, from LeghOrn
Tor Savannah. having cOaled.
Philadelphia, Nov 6-Cleared, schr Isaac
Clark. Cranmer, Fernandina.
Perth Amboy, Nov 6-Sailed, scbr Carrie
Strong. Strong, Brunswick, Ga.
Vineyard Haven, Nov ARRIVED, schr Nj '
y Chase. Bacon, ApalachicOla for NepOnset.
Georgetown, 5 e, Nov CARVED. schr Levin
Nelson. Holloway, Wilmington, Del.
Key West, Nov 6-Arrived, steamer Lizzie
Henderson, johnson, Sagua; Morgan, Staples
havana for New Orleans, and proceeded
schr Mabel Darling (Br), Pinder. HarboI
Island, for Baracoa.
New Bedford, Nov CARVED, schrs AbbiC
G Stubs, Eldridge, Bull River, c; Ger
trude Abbott. Champion, Philadelphia; PhebC
woodruff. Mayo. do.
Pensacola, Nov CARVED bark Priscilla
Ger, Smith, st Thomas; schr Emily J Watts
Watts, Galveston.
Port Royal. Nov G-Arrived, schr Kate VI
Hilton, johnson, New Bedford; Willis ;
shepherd, Reayes. do.
Sailed schr f II Hartman, Wood, Bruins
wick, Ga.
New York, Nov s-Arriyed, Acorn, Lancas.
Arrived out, British Princess, Canada, Eta
Stewart. SYanen.
HOmeward, Marietta d, Pensacola; Ala.
bama, Mobile.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-09
TUTORING THE INDIANS.
CAPT. PRATT AND THE SCHOOL
AT CARLISLE, Pa.


Education the True Solution of the In
dian PrOslem-How the Captain Con-
ceived the Plan Which Led to the
Embellishments of the school.
Correspondence Of the Afoy,aino Veaos.
WASHINGTON, Nov. THE fiscal year
just past has been a remarkable one in its
developments in the possibilities and
probabilities of Indian education. The
school year just opening sees nearly Is, 900
little Indians in school. The report of the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs shows
that between 1900 and $4,000 were in
schools last year, two-thirds of the num-
Der through governmental aid and the re-
mainder by State, church and private as
sistance. TIE limited appropriations for
Indian education by the last Congress are
such as to render any considerable in
crease IN the number impossible, but it is
hoped the growth of the system may be
such as to bring the number up to the
total mentioned above. Few people real
ize the excellent work being done by the
Department of the Interior in this regard,
the active workers in the cause being the
Commissioner Of Indian Affairs, Hon.
Hiram Price. and the head of the Indian
school, Capt. Pratt. So quietly yet
e1ectually has the educational ex-
pertinent been carried on by these
officials and those who have assisted
them, that it is considered no longer an
experiment, but true solution of the
Indian problem. Experience educa-
tien is what they need.'' said Capt.
Pratt, the head of the Carlisle school, to
your correspondent a few days since.
eve have tried theory education for more
than century, and it does not reach the
mood
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-09

IN the midst OF this serious condition OIL
affairs, Capt. Pratt has resOrted to a
system which he calls "planting out"
and which may, perhaps, prove the last
requirement in the solution of the problem
which this Congressional inertia has so
delayed. He sends out from the school
during a part of the year the young
Indians who have sufficiently progressed
IN the use of the language, hiring them
out to farmers, blacksmiths, timers, or
whatever their trades may be, the girls
being sent into families who will teach
them household work. They are thus
made not only self-supporting while they
are getting practical knowledge of civil
liZed life, but are also enabled to learn
the pleasures of earning and owning
money of their own. Some of these also
are to attend the public schools instead of
returning to the Carlisle school.
These experiments have been sue
cessfulin high degree. And why may not
this prove the true solution of the Indian
problem? There are school acc0mmOda-
tions for 10000, VIII re they can be taught
the rudiments of language, etc., to fit
them to go into families and public
schools. Why might not the 10000 who
have already this experience be trans
ferred to families throughout the country,
and when another 10000 can be so pre-
pared let hem be transferred and so on,
until within very few years the $4,000
Indians of school age be distributed among
the so 000, 900 Inhabitants Of this country
to learn the lessons of the schools, and
the customs of civilized life as we'll?
Accompanying this are portraits of
Capt. Pratt and of three Pueblo Indians,
Mary Perry, Bennie Thomas and John
Menaul, as they arrived at the Carlisle
School in 1880, and as they left it in 1884.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-09

To this quiet, modest, Woodworking
Christian soldier and gentleman the
cSuse of Indian education and ciYiliza-
ton probably owes more than to any
other one man. Less tnan ten years ago.
when placed in charge of lot
of vagabond Indians, who had been
captured and were to be imprisoned
at St. Augustine. Florida, for some
Ctfenses, he conceived the idea of attempt
ing tn educate them, both physically and
mentally, and by the aid of some phi
lanthropic ladies who CHANGED to be win
tering there he carried out the expert
ment so far as to become convinced that
the Indian was as easily educated as the
average white or negro who had no bet
ter antecedents and opportunities, and
that the solution Of the Indian problem
lay in the education of the rising genera
ton in both mental and physical things,
teaching them the methods of civilized
life and at least the primary elements of
our school education. To make a long
story short, the result was the establish
ment of an Indian school at the old Car
Isle barracks, where the Hessians cap
tured at Trenton hundred years earlier
had been quartered, and where FitZhugh
Lee in 1868 scattered fire and devastation.
This school had, at the date of Capt.
Pratt's last annual report, over 800 In.
dian pupils, who are trained in both in
dustrial and scholastic lines at the same
time, giving a portion of each day to
studies and part to learning
useful trades or occupations, while
many of them are ''planted out"
among the white population during
the vacation period between the school
terms. More than this, the success of
this experiment led to the establishment
of other schools in other parts of the
country, some industrial schools of this
kind and others day and boarding schools,
until this little table, included in the
report of Commissioner Price, shows the
best years work in the history of Indian
education
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-09
GREAT NIAGARA IN HARNESS,
The Power of the Fails Used by a Tele-
phone Company at Buffalo.
D., Eo,,,.ooa

eyes, we have operated the Buffalo
Telephone Exchange for the past ten days
with electricity made at Niagara Falls"
was the interesting remark made by the
manager of the Bell Telephone Company.
~ great many people have urged the
feasibility of utilizing the Niagara Falls
for water-power purposes, claiming that
III them was power enough to drive every
machine operated in the State-if it could
be connected. The company has two
wires to Niagara Falls. Only one Of
these has been used at night. AS an
experiment we placed a generator in
the paper mills of Quimby & Co., at Nj
agara Falls, which runs at night, and
connected the machine with our 20 miles
OF Wire. The result has been a success.
II you ring up police headquarters at
midnight tonight your answer from the
central office will be made by electricity
made at Niagara Falls"
chow many telephones are supplied
from the new powert"
I'VE have about 1900 instruments in
use in this city, and connections with
about 800 towns and villages which have
an aggregate of 5000 Instruments. Yes,
it is perfect success. Wonderful, you
say? Why, nothing is wonderful with
electricity"