Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1892-01-27

uuilZ dllu ANeIy SuoWeu IiidI Inoy WcIc
in hearty accord with all measures that
would help to increase the prosperity Of
this city and county.
Last week we had to gently remind the
Echo that its foolish items were doing
this city and county great damage, and
that 1t ought to cease publishing such
stuff. In answer the Echo vigorously
blows its horn, and boasts Of what great
things it has done to build up Alpena In
the past few weeks, and we are thus oblig-
ed to speak more plainly. We care little
how our cotemporaries praise themselves
or what they print as long as the rubbish
does not go outside of the county or work
injury to the community. AS far as the
people here are concerned, the self-praise
Of the Echo only causes the citizens to
laugh and make remarks about the
swelled-heads of the managers OF that
sheet. But when they make sneering re-
marks about neighboring counties, and
thus raise enemies to Alpena with tend
ency to do this city great injury, we think
it is about time the Echo should be call
ed to halt.
The Echo boasts OF the great good it
has done Alpena. Let us examine It's re-
cent record. We printed last week its
attack on Cheboygan, in which it stated
that Cheboygan was in danger Of being u
wreck. The item was probably intended
to be joke in which the editor used
some of his cheap wit, but it proved a
boomerang to Alpena. The item made
the editor Of the Cheboygan Tribune mad,
and in reply he printed an item in which
he stated that Alpena was in a terribly
embarrassed financial condition; that
Alpenas leading citizens were openly
predicting that this city would go to ruin
as soon as the pine was cut, and other
remarks of like effect. Our citizens know
that the Tribune's remarks are misrep-
reservations, but people outside the
county do not know them to be untruths,
and thus great injury is done to this city.
This is one way the Echo has advertised
Alpena. 1t has been the cause of
neighboring newspaper circulating mis-
representations about the people here
and their future prospects, and we be-
lieve it is species of advertising that
Alpena people do not appreciate.
Alpena people have been trying and are
still at work in getting new industries es-
tablished, and so far have met with con-
siderable success. But how can capital
lists who live outside the county be in
duced to invest their money here il
neighboring newspapers circulate such
reports as was done by the Tribune, and
for which the Echo is responsible? How
can. success ensue II the Echo, by its
blunders and foolish remarks, destroys
the good work done by our enterprising
business men? They arrange new plans
whereby new industries may be started
here, and then the Echo comes along and
destroys all their labors, and yet the
Echo boasts Of thegreat work 1t has done
to the community.
There is another foolish act OF the
Echo that we desire to speak Of, as 1t Is
one of the great benefits 1t boasts 1t has
accomplished for Alpena. We refer to
its reckless attack on the officials of the
Detroit, Bay City & Alpena railroad.
That company ran the express to and
from this city without palace car for
some weeks after the winter time table
went into effect. Because the car was
taken off, the Echo made several bitter
attacks on the officials OF tho road, and
did its best to create an i'll feeling be-
tween Alpena people and the railroad Of
ficials.
Now, one of the great needs OF this
county Is more railroad communication.
Our people want a railroad running north
through Presque Isle to Cheboygan.
Alpena, as there are several hundred
millions of feet of pine In that region that
would come to this city IL a railroad Is
built through it. There is also an i'm
mense amount of other timber that would
come over the route. A survey was
made last year, and our citizens hope the
capitalists who control the railroad will
extend their line up through Pressure Isle
this year. But when paper In this city,
the Echo, bitterly and unjustly assails
these gentlemen, how can Alpena citizens
expect that the capitalists, thus maligned,
will feel interested in investing their
money in improvements that would bring
great benefits to Alpena. A railroad Of
fetal is like other men. He cannot be
expected to feel an interest in communi-
ty that lies and abuses him, and the peo-
pie OF town have to shoulder the evil
effects from such work as has been done
by the Echo.
The facts in regard to the palace car
show that the d., b. G. & A. railroad Of
Acials were not to blame for the car being
of their road. The Echo was fully in
formed regarding the reasons q palace
car was not attached to the express. He
was told by an official that the railroad
did not own such cars; that they are the
property OF the Wagner Palace Car Co. !.
that the Wagner company at the approa, !.
OF winter had taken number Of their
palace cars of the routes and had placed
them in the repair shops, SO that the cars
would be In good condition for public
travel; that the railroad would get one
Of the cars Just as soon as the Wagner
company had one to spare, and that