The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31
EXIST. PAUL EDITORS VIEW OF
CLEVELAND IN THE
FORTIES.
GREAT CHANGES MADE SINCE.
A BIT OF THE OLD TOWN STILL
FOUND INTACT IN THE THIRTY
ING CITY.
SUBURBAN
ELECTRIC
LINES
Make Cleveland the Business Center
for a Large Area of
Country.

special correspondence to the GLOBE.
CLEVELAND, Dec. 29.-Fifty years
is good while in the lifetime of a man
or a country, and when the progress
of the past fifty years is recalled it
seems as If it covers more than a CEN
fury. I have been revolving in my
mind today the injunction.
Backward, turn backward, time in your
fight,
Make me a child again. just for tonight
And 1 see small and verdant boy
on the forward deck of the fast pas
senger packet Mary Ann, which is ply
ing the raging waters of the Ohio and
Pennsylvania canal and nearing the Ito
the boy great port of Cleveland. That
was fifty years ago the present year
and was the occasion of my first visit
to Cleveland. Mark Hanna was then
unknown to fame, In fact, only a boy
himself and John D. Rockefeller and
the Standard Oil company had not be-
gun business. In fact l read in some
Cleveland Chronicles today this item:
'1861-The oil discoveries in Ohio and
Pennsylvania began to attract atten-
ton and John d. Rockefeller and
Henry NJ. Flagler formed partnership
| to engage in the oil business, from
winch SIldll the Oll
company sprang."
The chronicle did not add that the
lean of $1,000 by T. P. Hardy, of Cleve-
land was what enabled Rockefeller to
make his start in life, but the people
of Cleveland know and remember it.
The Cleveland which greeted my boy
ish eyes of fifty years ago is not the
Cleveland of today, and still as 1 walk
ed up and down Superior street l could
remember a number of buildings which
still stand as land marks of the old
days. Superior street has what, 1
think, no other city in the country pos
sesses, a double track cable and a
double track electric street car track,
and either side of the four tracks ample
roadway room. Land was not as Valu-
able when Superior street was laid out
as when our Third street was seized
from the Indians and made so narrow
that the Indians did not think they
had lost enough to make 1t worth while
to reclaim It. Lower Superior street in
Cleveland and our Third street have
one thing in common, the retention OF
the old buildings, while modern i'm
provements have sought other streets
or other portions of the same street.
Lower Superior street today recalls my
first visit of fifty years ago, but all else
in Cleveland seems changed. Death
has been less kind to the people than
| the elements have been to the buildings,
as 1 do not recall single name of a
business man now eXtant who was ac-
tive half a century ago. The popula-
ton has increased ten-fold since the
fast canal packet Mary Ann made that
! memorable, triumphal entry into Cleve-
land, with four horses on the team
path dashed into a keen trot by the
| noisy driver whose shouts called the
| populace to the banks of the stagnant
| stream to see the Mary Ann stir up the
| mud with her prov. --.- --s-
REPUBLICAN TROUBLE.
| Mayor McKisson is a good deal of a
bull in the Republican china shop
F., herea bouts. He is young lawyer but
| little rising of thirty, who has cap
| tured the Republican machine, and
that's what's the matter with Hanna. -
When he ran for mayor Hanna opposed
! him bitterly and now he is playing
the return engagement. McKisson evil
| IDENTIFY regards Pingree, of Detroit, a
| good model, and he inaugurated a cru
| SADIE for lower street car fares, de-
handing a three-cent fare. Mr.. Hanna
! being president of one of the street
railways, this doubtless explained his
zeal, as he could pose as a champion of
| the people and scalp an enemy at the
same time.
The three-cent fare scheme failed
! and then four-cent fare was attempt
| ed and now the whole street car con-
| troversy has been referred to an arbi-
| tration committee gotten up by Mayor
| McKisson. The weak feature Of the
| arbitration is that, while the mayor has
| appointed a committee supposedly in
| the interest of the people, the street car
| companies have so far declined to ap-
| point any one, and the arbitration, with
only one side selected, is little puzzled
how to begin. The street car companies
have limited franchises, and the short
est one still has nine years to run, so
that they are not absolutely furious
| to arbitrate, but are rather lying back
and asking Mayor McKisson what he
is going to do about it, as he can
neither revoke their charters nor reduce
their fares during the lease of life they
| already possess.
| POINTER FOR LOWRY.
| The street cars here carry Illuminated
| street signs at night the front corner Of
| the car Just below the windows This is an
| improvement which was mooted so long ago
| in st. Paul that it has been forgotten, and. as
| Mr. Lowry is so closely confined at homo, l