Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-12-05
Want A PLASTER Mill
Two Chicago Men Looking Over
the Union Property.
NEXT YEARS TRADE WILL Be GOOD
A In eiaeptai Reference 60 street 1aii
vsys-A virgisis Siasssr fsiks
Abous the south and the
Nsgroes-Ths neesls.

Chicago ale At the Morton. They are
figuring to secure the property Of the
Union Plaster company at Grandviile.
I've have looked the plant over, said
Mr.. Hubbell yesterday. I'VE can't tell
whether we shall purchase il or not.
The quarry seems TO be first-class and
the mill in fairly good condition. If
we can come to al agreement with the
present owners, it is possible that We
may purchase il. think there will Be
good demand for the plaster next
year. /. 10 now used in all kinds OF
finishing and decorating work where
plaster is used at all. The Grand Rap
ids plaster has the reputation OF being
the best in the market" ssGrand Rap
Ids seems buster than ever" said Mr..
Russell. at % wonderful how much
push and enterprise there is ia this c fy.
Grand Rapids has an enviable reputa-
ton all over for its lively and hustllng
character. Your new street railway
seems to work to perfection. We still
cling TO horse and cable cars IN Chicago.
This isn't because We arc not enterpris-
ing, but because we can't operate cleo
trio cars there. They won't permit the
companies to use trolley wlrts, and
until some new system can be devised
or the storage battery perfected, We
shall have TO continue our present
method. However. II 10 a question OF
only a short time before the storage
battery will be perfected and capable OF
being put to some practical use. When
that time comes. and it may come any
day now. that will be the great method
of propelling street cars"
southsrn Prosperity.
w. B. Hale. Virginia planter, 10 AT
the Morton. 81 just came up here to
see about some real estate in Muskegon
county," he said to reporter for the
TELEGRAM-HERALD last night. "This
has been a quiet year in the South, but
it has been fairly pro sperous too. The
South has turned its attention from
cotton and tobacco, and 10 doing q gen.
eral farming the same as the Western
states do. Oats and corn are being
raised; pork 10 being fattened. and
stock raised. Truck gardeningis be-
coming an important industry, aud
they are paying great attention to the
cultivation of fruit. The South is inn
proving slowly and gradually recover
ing from the effects of the war. The
negro isn't progressing SO fast as We
might wish him to; but we can't expect
too much from q race that has been
curbed and limitized SO long. 1t is .
difficult matter to get him to work
steadily. So soon as he earns dolla +
or two he wishes to spend it before
he earns anv more. He will 20 to school
some. but more from curiosity than
from any real desire TO obtain knowl-
edge. He learns to read in 4 super
fetal way and to write in painfully
slow manner. Then he foncly imagines
that he is educated. Tie most difficult
thing about the advancement and inn
provement of the negro is to get him to
understand the value of steadiness and
thoroughness. Politically he 10 waver-
ing and unsteady-except at national
elections. Then he stands bv his color
and votes the republican presidential
ticket. But on all other occasions he
votes with the party that gives him the
most money. ] am not stating this
from q southern. but from. a northern
standpoint. l was born in Verm ,nt,
and raised IN Massachusetts,. But the
negro 10 advancing slowly, although
neither you nor l will ever live to see
him where he ought to be to exercise
iptelligently the privileges that have
been granted to him. Virginia has 8
good system of public schools now,
both for the whites and blacks. We
keep them separate. Our school tax 10
the heaviest TAX We pay in the south.