The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-23

she laughed.
1t ia not uncommon to talk about
good old times" and contrast them
faVorably with the present. The progress
OF the nineteenth century has been so
great that in comparison the people of 100
years ago were destitute Geost of the
comforts of the present time were I'M
known. "a
IN iSOo the rates of letter postage were
as follows: Under 40 miles, 8 cents: over
40 miles and under 90 miles, 10 cents; over
~ miles and under $50 miles, 121a cents:
over $50 and under 300 miles II cents:
over $50 miles and under 400 miles 1871
cents; and over 400 miles 25 cents. There
was no general reductions from these
rates until 1S45.
The second census taken in 1900 showed
5,3OS,4S3 population, including 500. S43
slaves. The population of New York City
WAS 6O,4S9; Philadelphia, 10000; Boston.
1887; Washington city had about 1,O00
population, with one tavern and a few
good houses. A portion of the govern
ment buildings were completed. Presi-
dent Adams occupied the unfinished
White house
When Washington became president all
the chief towns were on the sea coast or
tide water rivers. For fifty years fol-
lowing the beginning of the Revolution.
the site of Chicago was a fiat, unbrollen
prairie. without white inhabitant
When the Revolution had closed. Gin
clnnati was log fort, with a few huts;
Detroit was a little French settlement
surrounded with high stockade New
Orleans existed, and st. Louis was a
small trading post, but they both be-
lOnged to Spain.
1t is hard to make it seem true that
Washington, Jefferson Franklin an the
fathers of the republic never saw a rail-
road or telegraph line, or a sewing
machine, or a photograph. or a type
writer, or a rubber band, or a shoe or
a piano, or a stem-Winding watch, or
cyclopedia, or a dictionary, or a
chrome, or a steel engraving, or fr.c-
ton match, or a heating stove or
furnace, or a gas or an electric light. or
a tire engine, or a thousand and one
other things common to every enc today
There was not city or town worthy of
the name in the English colonies west of
the Allegheny mountains hundred years
ago. Along the Atlantic coast we find
Portsmouth, Boston, Providence, New
Haven, New York, Philadelphia, Bal
timore, Alexandria, Williamsburg
Charleston, Savannah and others Of less
note. AIlQ the largest OF these were col
lections Of a few hundred houses ranged
along streets, none OF which were sewer
ed, and a few of which were paved or
lighted.
In the chief towns there were step
ping stones across the streets for Pc
destrians, to keep them out of the mud
There were no railways or parks, or
public statues or monuments to comment
crate men or events The Waterman
went his rounds at night with rattle
and lantern, calling out the hours and the
state of the weather, and stopped and
demanded the name of every person
found walking on the streets after 9
o'clock Houses were not numbered, and
streets were not named.
Republican congressional caucus in
Philadelphia in 1900 nominated Jefferson
and Burr for president, the first nominal
tons ever made. The object was to
give the presidency and vice presidency
to one party. Jefferson and Burr receiv-
ed % votes for president, Adams 65, C. c.
Pinl1ney 81. John Jay /. A Rhode Island
federal eiector seeing the danger of a tie,
which happens to the Republicans, threw
away a vote. AS Jefferson and Burr re-
ceived the same number of votes for
president, the election was thrown upon
the house OF representa- tives, and Jeffer-
son was elected president, and Burr vice
president.