Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-16

through Central New York or Centra,
Pennsylvania, 20 immigrants from me
old country went up the Hudson ~
Albany, took packet for Black Rock. ana
then sailed westward on the crude aan
Ing vessels that piled the waters ~ sho
lake. In this way all Of Western New
York, Northern Ohio, Northern Indians
aud the Southern peninsula of Mlchioan
were settled. N'
Among many others who came this
way was certain Scotch millwrloh,
named Scouller, who was bound for
flttsburg In search OF fortune. on ire
passage from Black Rock to Eric the
vessel went through heavy gale, during
which the Scotchman got sea-sick While
| In this condition some yagabond stole
his money. He did not discover hls
loss, however, until he had landed
at Erie and gone some distance
on the stage coach on his wav
toward Pittsburg. Then he turned
about and retraced his steps, walkinU be.
cause he had no money to pay his wav
Arrived at Erie, he tried in vain 10 tnd
the thief who had stolen his money. Silk
ana almost dishearlened, he CHANGED 10
near oi q man on the point OF erecting a
gust MIL. At that time there was not a
erist mill In Pennsylvania outside Of
Fhilae elphia and flttsburg. Scouller an
piled Tor work, got 1t, proved industrious
ana nohest, and eventually married his
employers daughter Being thrifty, he
soon owned the mill he worked IN. The
lamliy Of which this man was the founder
Is now one OF the wealthiest in all this
region, and has representatives in both
state and national affairs. Suppose the
scotch millwright had not had his SEEM
ing misfortune on the boat that night
Would he ever have found his opportu-
nifty elsewhere? What vast train of
circumstance that thief brought about
to be sure.
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THE NEWSPAPERS OF THE CITY.
But 1t was not many years before Black
Rock began to fall behind Why, no one
could exactly see. 1t had every advan-
toge OF location, but still everybody
seemed TO prefer the vigorous young vii.
lage that lay three miles up the lake on
hlgh ground that caught then, and has
caught ever since, ever blizzard that has
swept down over the frozen surface of
Lake Erie. For time II was neck.and
neck race between the two towns, but at
length the older hamlet fell behind. Is
to-day village of few thousand souls
ragged suburb Of the thirteenth city In
size in the Union.
Ihere isn't poorer newspaper city in
the country than Buffalo. Mr. Edwin
Cowles, VINO owns the Cleveland Leader,
once declared in my hearing that he
would not take any of the Buffalo news
papers as gift, aud be compelled TO con
tinue its publication. The trouble Is with
the field. That is worse than Galveston
or Dallas, You see, to begin with, Lakes
Erie and Ontario are closely. There are
no advertisers or subscribers In them
Then the Canada line cuts off another
Slice Canadians want Toronto or Ham.
ilton papers, and they get them Next IL
is only ninety miles eastward to Roches-
ter, which has its three big dailies, ready
TO grasp all of the feld in that direction.
To the south, ia the Pennsylvania
oil regions, competition III the shape
OF the Cleveland papers Is met with.
Altogether, Buffalo papers have hard
time of it. The only way they
have been successful ia by adding 70
heir establishments fancy printing
offices, and lor'this kind of commercial
work Buffalo is justly celebrated. The
great showmen, Bamum and Forepaugh,
get all of their show printing done here.
Buffalo papers have ridiculously low cir
cuiations considering the size of the city
and its commercial importance. None
of the leading ones exceed 5000 copies
daily, even on Sunday, and one of them,
of ten years Standing, las lust suspended