Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-09

Ing II not sensational. The big Blaine
meeting at the opera house Thursday even
ing has gone all over the country. What
an amazing time this age OF the telegraph
and locomotive is, TO be sure. Three citi-
zens of this city think that it would be a
good thing 10 boom the man of Maine for
president they promptly hire hall, engage
band, secure the services of Q great ora
tor for the occasion. and 10 the telegraph
gives them an audience of 10000, coo for
their meeting; through the press their ora
tor speaks TO every reading man and voter
in this vast country. Many of the persons
who attended the meeting Thursday night
probably had the idea that the meeting had
only local significance, or at least not ex-
tending beyond the boundaries of the
Eighth district, or Of Ohio at far.hest. In
this they were much mistaken. The great
interest which was taken In the meeting In
other cities Is proved by the long special
dispatches which were sent to the great pa
pers of the country by their Springfield
correspondents. Long articles were teIe-
graphed after the meeting to the Chicago
Times. Chicago Tribune, New York Trib-
uae, Pittsburg Dispatch. Chicago Herald,
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, Cincinnati
Enquirer, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio
State Journal. and vast number of 9TH
ers. On top of that there was an account
Of the meeting sent out BY telegraph in
the Associated Press which went to thou
sands Of papers besides, In all parts Of the
country, from Maine to California Millions
Of people will read the account of the meet
ing, and 1t cannot fail to have an immense
Influence. Almost all the papers in the
country are commenting on the meeting,
and there Is little doubt but that Blaine
men In all parts Of the country will take
their cue from the Springfield meeting, and
organize similar demonstrations. Ii is also
likely that the illustrious statesman him.
self will hear Of the meeting, and memory
will take him back to his visit to Spring
field in 1854, when he rode around the
Springfield streets amid crowd SO dense
that If looked like surging sea, In which
his carriage looked like boat, Is IL pushed
through the sea Of people. He will also
remember the handsome and appropriate
little speech he made from the platform Oh
the market square in which he compliment
ed Springfield on her splendid manufactur-
ing industries.
The meeting last Thursday was q re-
markable affair. and who knows what in
nuence 1t may have on the result of the
convention? A small lever sometimes
works the most astonishing results in hui
man destiny, if 1t is used at just the right
time and place
There Is just one thing needed to make
the Springfield street car system perfection
itself, and that is q system OF transfer
checks similar that used in Toledo and
other cities. Ii q man lives ON Clifton |
street and is employed on east Main street |
the street cars should take him to his des- |
tination for one fare. As il is he Is Obliged |
to,pay his fare on the Clifton street line, |
and then pay another fare on the east Main |
street line. He should be given q cores |
pondence check on the Clifton street line |
which would be good on the east Main |
street line. This is the system used in |
Toledo with great success. There are sew |
ersl different lines there, and passengers |
are transferred from one car to another |
free of charge IL by this means they can be |
taken any nearer to their destination. In |
Springfield passengers should be transferred |
from one line to another, II they could be |
Accommodated thereby. The system would |
no doubt pay in the end, as by that means |
many persons could be induced to ride in |
the cars who now keep their own con-
veyances.
met young lady from Kentucky not |
long ago, who is well acquainted with Joe |
MulhattOn, the greatest newspaper ro-
mancer In the world. The young lady is |
an entertaining talker, and gave me an ex- /
ceedingly interesting account Of Mulhatton's |
wonderful stories. She said: 'Mr. Jo- |
seph Mulhstton' is not a myth, as some |
persons suppose, but q real person. He is |
Q Kentucky drummer. and although he |
does not follow journalism as profession, |
he writes for several papers. l met him |
not long ago on train, and found him an
interesting conversationalist- You prob
ably remember the story which went the |
rounds of the press about monkeys being
taught 10 pick hemp on q Kentucky planta-
tion." Il remember the story very well. as
wrote some comments on 1t for the REPUB
Lie st the time.) THE romance wss witt
ten so piausibly that IL was believed and
copied from one end of the country to the
other. Mr.. Mnlhatton gave the name of
the farmer in Kentucky on whose planta-
tion 1t was alleged the monkeys had been
trained to pick the hemp, and the estimated
saving to the farmer by using monkey
labor. As soon as the article appeared
nearly every paper in the country reprinted
1t. Dana, of the New York Sun, consid-
cred it worthy of an editorial over column
long, in which he used all the points In
Mulhatton's article in good faith, and also
added other instances of where monkeys
had been taught to work. Other papers
took 1t up, and the press fairly teemed with
apla LII F1r \
was well acquainted with the man on whose
plantation these wonderful happenings
were alledged to have taken place. As
soon as the article appeared his mali ran
up to hundreds Of letters a day; he was
fairly deluged with inquiries on the sub
iect People from all over the country
visited his place by the scores, only TO find
that the whole story was one Of Mulhat-
tons greatest creations. This is only one
Of the many stories OF which Mulhatton Is
the author, and now you know that when
the telegraph editor receives . particularly
tough story he always heads 1t .Mulhatton's
Latest"
1t Is not generally known" said a
prominent citizen of the west end the other
day, That the Leffel water wheel works
came very near being located in the west
end, not far from the present location of
the tricycle. works. In the early days of
Springfield, when the water wheel people !,
were looking for location for their works,
they went to Zischler, who at that time
owned large tracts of land In that vicinity,
and tried to purchase land for their works
The price which he asked was larger than
they were willing to pay, however, and the
result was that the works were built in
their present location"
A young lady who attends the Cineip-
natl school of design told me the other day
that Mr.. Vincent Nowottny, who lef; this
city to accept a position in that institution,
is considered the best art teacher in
Cincinnati. Shs is pupil of Mr.. Nowottny
and says that she is delighted with the pro-
uress which she has made under his tntaI-