Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-24
NOTES FROM CLEVELAND.

: Moses aveland-An Editors Fix-Blu'
: Eyes Going-Tramps' Resu-Free sch"o
Books-Electric Light-An Advertising
Dodge-New Music Hall-Free Soup.
Some time ago saw in one of the stor'
q windows pictsre OF Cleveland in its younger
days. There are people not far from where
| write who have seen a corduroy road ou
Euclid avenue and log bridge not two mile:
from the square.
have been looking back a little and
find that our city is no more than good old
age for man. England can boast OF hel
tumble-down ruins, but when it comes to
growth in population she is way behind.
Moses Cleayeland, a graduate of Yale and
captain in the army, was given power by the
Connecticut Land Company, to survey the
Western Reserve, lay out towns and make
friends with the Indians.
July %, 1885, bis little band of surveyors
laid out city q mile square, in what was
then a noble forest. Moses thought the city
which held his name would some day be a
great place, and predicted for it population
of l,500. If he could see the Cuyshoga
river to-day he would have given up all hope.
A dirtier, more filthy river does not exist, to
my mind, and | have seen a good many.
At first there were three log cabins and
total resident population OF four; this varied
until in 1880, at the first U. S. census Cleve-
land contained ,o75 people. In this year the
Advertiser appeared. The editor found the
name too long for the "form," 40 the a in
Cleaveland was dropped, novel way of
getting over the difficulty, surely. The pub
lie accepted the change and the predicted
city of 500 will on its first centennial in
1896 probably contain population of three
| hundred thousand and more.
In the dim future young men can be seen
striving as bard to win the girl with blue eyes
| as they strive now for heiresses. If an in
| dustrious Frenchman can be relied upon, blue
eyes are becoming extinct as fast as buffalos
on tie plains. l could not attempt to ex-
plain all his experiments and observations,
but he says that there is an increase OF 5 per
| cent. of dark eyes in each generation where
the parents eyes differ. Look out for blue
eyes.
The Council have been wrestling with the
light question, and at last have decided to try
electric lights another year. There is much
opposition, however, and no matter on how
small a street a congressman lives he must
have electric lights or he don't want any one
else to have any. This is too strong a way to
put it OF course, but that is the idea.
The Board of Education are fighting over
free school books. Many scholars don't care
about free school books, but it seems as if the
thing went too far when they shut off ink
and paper. | believe they did furnish paper
at the last examination, but you can imagine
the beauty Of carrying an ink bottle, taking
care that the bottle don't get broken; getting
the ink over your fingers, and at last when
you get to school, find the ink frozen solid.
II is sald that a we'll known pill firm in
London has sent . wagon-load of posters de-
scribing the merits Of their pills to be dis
tributed among the soldiers in Egypt under
Lord Wolseley; and q check of $3.50 to be
given to the soldier who first Plus pill pos
ter on General Gordon's door in Khartoum
Work has been begun on a new tabernacle
and music hall to seat 5000 people. Mr. W.
H. Dosn. the owner OF the old tabernacle, in
which so much good has been done, is tine
prime mover in the present enterprise. The
building will be heated by steam, and venti-
lation will be well considered. Light will
be admitted through three rows OF windows;
the ceilings will be plastered and handsomely
decorated; the seats will be perforated and lift
up, while special precaution is taken against
fire. There will be two galleries with each
seat facing the center.
Poverty Barn has done a good business
this year, having lO,0O7 dodgers for the year
just ending. During cold weather, when
tramp business is poor, the barn has some
times 100 boarders night and over 1000
month, while in July there were only SO
members present. Accounts show that only
500 of the 10000 cannot read, and only about
the same number are married
W ucu ueu diAtu u iIctluS Tue slhNcs,
some said they would be helpless and on the
hands Of the country. Only las colored
men were housed at Poverty Barn this year,
less than II per cent. of the 10000.
The Bethel has begun to give away free
soup to the poor. A warm room to sleep in
this very cold weather would be grand
charity. 1t has been hardly possible to keep
warm with plenty Of blankets the last few
days. Think OF man attempting to sup
port a wife and children when he has not
enough food, and that cold and cheap, let
alone a cold room and scanty bed clothes. |
Honest and hard-working citizens should be
helped as we'll as protected. Many a man
takes to drink and ruins his family because
he don't have enough food and clothes to |
keep him warm. This is where legislation is
needed, and money will be as well spent as
in S., 900 salaries. CHARLES X. BOLTON.
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