Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-07-12

| Some son of genius had come along,
! without the means to pay for his
nights lodging, and told them that
| they had beautiful tile clay. Through
| the tariff standard of protection was
| obtained which insured eastern capital
| lists to buy the plant. and now the
harmonious pottery cylinders and
chimneys stud the plain, making the
place a miniature Stoke.
| The iron education of Pittsburgh
has served as great university and
! training school To advance into Ohio
and out TO the great lakes. Wheeling.
| which was a neglected little town
/ in the Panhandle of Virginia. has be
| come another furious Pittsburgh
| passed Fostoria, where Charley Foster
| failed, between the dates | went east
and returned, through his enterpris
| ing town in the Black Swamp of Ohio
| Looking over this town one seems to
| see its volatility, with more glass fac
! tories than are necessary, with rail
| roads drawn through the place to
whoop it up, and. though the develop
] ments have been important, | no
| ticed large number of the oil der
ricks idle, as il the product had been
pumped ont. A liberal politician ere
ates expenses originally not necessary.
Like the habit of tipping walters, the
result is that at last one cannot get
| mis- breakfast unless he pays extra for
| it. So, assisting Legislators in their
election expenses establishes prece-
dent. in which gratitude is livel}
sense of favors to come. Though
| wheat dropped to about sixty-nine
cents hushei on the 1st of june, il
was fourteen cents higher than in
| 1861. and twenty-five cents higher
than in 1852, when Pierce had
been elected president. Ohio and
Pennsylvania have much better
farm and town improvements than
either West Virginia or states west of
Ohio. The country is developing along
the new railroad lines, as if fifty years
hence it might look like France, with
brick instead Of shanty improvements.
At nearly every station Of size saw
tile works. to drain the fields. and in
strncted wandering Oklahoma farmer
beside me upon the mystery of these
pores and passing it down the channel
or cylinder so as to dry the fields Said
this farmer to me: II have just secured
my one hundred and twenty-five acres
of land in Oklahoma. where waited
for months to get my piece, almost
starving to death meantime. II is a.
good land as they have in the world
and the Indians have taken their par
GELS in severalty. like the whites. Ok
lahoma City and Guthrie will bc tho
chief place"
Studying the country. as ] came
along, made one OF two novel discov
cries. For instance, there is only one
county of Illinois between Chicago and
Wisconsin. The county of Cook. in
which Chicago stands, reaches to the
Indiana line. On the other side of the
Indiana line are only three counties o.
Indiana interposed between Illinois
and Michigan. and these support three
strong lake ports. Chicago therefor.
is the emporium of Wisconsin, Indiana
western Michigan and Illinois.
If were to ask almost any grown
man whether Michigan was east OF
Chicago or west of it he would say
Certainly, east Yet Michigan
-eaches one hundred and fovty miles
west of Chicago. alory Lake Su
pcrior. In forming the boundaries -
tho far northwestern states the rolr
ic1l georraphers planned wiser tha'
thcy knew. They give Michigan
Niacoasin and Minnesota long hon1d
arie; on Lake Super or. and within
each of those lakea districts were con
cca'el separate riches of Glrnos: mex
haustible iron. Consequently the irol
Of these three states makes an interna
tianal commerce with the coal at tht
ca~tern e-d of the lakes in Ohio an'
pcnnsr-' 'vania. You can either sem
the iron down to meet the coal or seno
tAc coal up to meet the iron, and il
either case constitute hardy navy o.
mariners, ard plant in the agriculture
states large and experienced minin
population.
Looking further. note that Chicago
stards On the latitude Of Providence
where religious toleration was firs'
taught, and of Plymouth. where th'
first Puritan colony landed. that on.
which did not hang Quakers or burn
witches, and on this line Is Kingston,
y. Y, where John Jay and other1
formed the original constitution OF
New York state. in the west, or beyond
the Alleghany mountains, which con
stitution lasted almost down to the
time Of the Erie canal
Chicago is on the longitude of old
Pensacola. where Andrew jackson did
his hacking and hanging. In spite OF
all that. Pensacola cuts no figure
among the ports Of the country, while
the unknown Chicago, which was
marked in .Iackson's presidency b.
only flag on the maps, showing that
1t was block house, has become the
second port in the United States.
When the Illinois Central railroad
was endowed by congress with three
million acres Of land. the Mobile & Ohio
railroad was similarly endowed, from
Cairo, Ill, to Mobile. Mobile. a few
years prior to the civil war, filed r.
much of the news. commerce and imar
iBation of the country as Chicago bnt
the civil war, which was capitalized Ia
Alabama into a government, divided
! TIE body Of this giant into half. unl>,s
/ It is to be forged together again by the
ceal and iron of northern Alabama
Eastern people suppose that Chicago
stands alone on the west shore of Lake
Michigan. but going north from Chics-
go you come to these respectable .
| ports, all thriving: Waukeyan. Keno
| sha. Racine, Milwaukee, Sheboygap,
Manitowoc. Kewaunee and 50 on. to
/ the straits of Mackinaw, which are
about three hundred and twenty-five
miles from Chicago. These straits are
| at tie top Of a beautiful Moorish arch.
% which one end is at Chicago and the
other IN the archipelago Of Lake Erie
The length OF this arch is about six
/ hundred ard fifty miles, and the east
ern foot Of it is some two hundred
miles from Buffalo.
| If you glance at the great lakes a.
they stand pictorially on the map they
look like megstherium or pregeoiog-
ical animal. its head in western Lake
superior. its feet Michigan and Huron
! and its tail the Georgian bay.