The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-02-21

Road
The road from here to Otterslide
Will be crowded street;
With street cars running up and down
And police on each beat;
While fire alarms and telephones
And steeples towers and slums;
Will be seen all around us
When the railroad comes.
The farmers will come into town
With pockets filed with gold,
And never think of asking
To be trusted as of old;
| They won't get drunk and raise q row
When they chance to meet their chums
And blow in al their money
When the railroad comes.
Mad River will be a mile across
And ships will sail thereon;
| Goose creek will be river, too.
The sunfowers will be gone;
Tom Rebb will be an alderman
And sit aud twirl his thumbs;
He'll take things very easy
When the railroad comes.
Bill Smith will be portly Judge,
Dave Rea millionaire;
Yves. Townsend will be making shoes
For fifty cents pair;
Dan will own brown stone front
His boys will play with drums
Still stranger things will happen
When the railroad comes.
Rudasill will keep brand
Of boiler-iron sandwiches;
Prof. Haas will have on hand
A line though hand-switches;
Mushrooms will spring. then dry up
And likewise all hoodlums;
Our joy will overflow the cup
When the railroad comes.
o. Brown will have a big brick block
And half hundred clerks;
Sidesinger will be president of
The Board of Public Works.
Gale Reams will be chief of police
And make raids on the slums;
Hunnsacker will be mayor -
When the railroad comes
Plummer will be merchant prince,
'Rasmus man of wealth;
The doctors will be kicking at
The prevalence of health.
The calaboose will be filled up
With beggars, tramps and buns;
For Zanesfeld will have them
When the railroad comes.
Bill Reames will have a coach and four
And Silas Strong yacht;
While Fawcett will be ask1nga
Cool thousand for a lot
The banks of Zanesfeld will charge
No interest on small sums;
o, won't we all be happy
When the railroad comes.
Hen. Long will go fishing
And catch mighty whale;
Jed will build huge air ship
And through the air will sail
| Ira Brown will have store teeth
And grind no more on gums;
Tough beef will be plenty
When the railroad comes.
Our P. M. will be quite busy
Handing US out the mail;
For it will make more business
When the news comes in by rail
| Frank @. Wade will have for rent
Four and twenty rooms;
Take your choice red or blue,
When the railroad comes.
| Bill Marquis fine mansion
With porches large and wide,
| Will have bay windows filed
With flowers on every side
Ben Lisby then will feel inclined
To vent his yum yum yums;
A free pass over the road boys,
| When the railroad comes.
| Orville ]. will have shop
And make your buggy cheap;
Francis R. will be on hand
A line of watches keep;
A grand and spacious bakery
| Where you can buy your buns;
Will be run by Grouse and Fawcett
When the railroad comes.
Oliver F. and Henry
Will stand and fold their arms,
And look around and see
Fine,mansions on their farms.
S. L. Wonders then will say
Farm the place my son,
That may take things easy
! When the railroad comes.
And Louis Potee's quarry farm
Will come in for share;
AS these hills for scenic beauty
Will all be very rare;
A lovely city on both sides
OF where the river runs,
} Will be the proper caper
When the railroad comes.
We make no great profession
And yet we think we know;
J We have qnite enough good men
To make a handsome show;
, Doctor Wanzer will IL ere get
Amongst the biggest guns;
! To Columbus he will go
When
The
Rail
Comes.
Monnett's Danger.-Under this hea
! referring to Attorney General Monnett'