The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-09-22
CA|RO'S BIC DAY
At CINCINNATI
soEclAL TRAIN AHEAD or TIME
CHORUS or BELLS GREET.
ED PARTY ON ARRIVAL.
ADVANTAGES. oF CAIRO
Strongly Presented Hy G, s, carsys,n
illustrated Address--Msyor
Parsons Responded to
Welcome,

I Cincinnati. Sept. 2l.--The Cairo
special train arrived ahead Of seffed-
.ule and all enjoyed the trip. The dee
CATION together with the Mound City
rarty toured the city in tally hos AID
made an enthusiastic demonstration
en- route, landing at the exposition Az
! 10 o'clock On arrival there d roals-
/, ing welcome was rung out from bel .
on NIL the towers or the expasit p1-
Cairo Day exercises We're carried
out according To program, May
!, Schwab making an address VI we.-
come, which Mayor Parsons respond
ed to briefly. and be was followed BY !
, an illustrated lecture by G. s, Carey,
which was closely followed by a largo
audience. Mr.. Carey had a large map
on which all the rivers and railroads
running from Cairo were shown. and
presented a large number OF views OF
the city, its surroundings and indus
tries.
Mr.. carcy's Address.
In presenting our city OF Cairo to
any intelligent audience, we deem. II
unnecessary to enter into the details
OF our very early history One Of
the most distinguished English au
thors of~the present age, Mr.. Charles
Dickens, has familiarized the reading
public Of America with that period
Of our history II perchance any one
has missed what this great author
said about the early days Of our city.
we would refer you TO his story Of
Martin Chuzzlewit aud to his Anari.s
can Notes The experience Of most
every resident Of Cairo when away
from home. would indicate however,
that every one familiar with
what this great man has said Of us
t5r s5ifie one invariably calls eur 3 Z
tention to It, little thing like this
has never daunted loyal citizen of
Cairo for did not the Romans some
1900 years ago try to discredit man
cn account of the city he hailed from
by saying Can any good come out
OF NAZARETH" You win agree with me
that that man has proved pretty con.
cluslvely that some good has come
out Of Nazareth. and we hope to sue
1 icessfully prove our case
While Mr.. Dickens description of
4, us was not altogether nattering We
Of the present day citizens can af-
ford 10 admit the truth of what he
said.
i The unfayorable picture the great
author drew Of our city in Its very
early history, but serves TO show hy
contrast with today, what wonderful
changes have takea place In this
great country Of ours. a
/ What he said Of Cairo at the time
he visited America could have as
truthfully been said OF Chicago.
Hence we are not interested Ia the
past, but it is the present and future
we are living for.
We do claim, however, that
Cairo from its earliest inception has
been one Of the important points In
the central states In the development
of the commercial and traffic inter
ests Of this great section
And today there exists at the juno
ton of the great Ohio and Missis.
gippi rivers. thriving industrial
and commercial community. such as
Charles Dickens and perhaps Darius
Holbrook even, never dreamed Of,
You will remember that Darius Hol
brook, perhaps the earliest promoter
OF a real city on the site OF Cairo.
!, conceived the idea that city built
on this site should In time become
the great interior metropolis Of tire
United States. He seems to haze
lsucceeded In impressing his Ideas on
the mind of the English people too.
II you will glance ut the map OF
our country and consider that In his
ltime, practically all the commerce Of
lour country was carried by our wa
ter ways, 1t will not appear strange
that Englishmen readily invested In
bonds offered them by Mr. Holhrook
of the Cairo City & Canal Co Our
favorable geographical location war
r1nted their faith in the securities
Mr. Charles Dickens was an investc.
In these bonds
The failure OF wrieht q Co. at
this time. who were Mr.. Holbrooh's
bankers In London. prevented the
,consumation OF his great scheme
/ A writer for Harpers uacasine Ia
hrerst last. In an article cr ra'-~
which ha des'~natea w the ras~ II
the Mississippi, pronounces Mr. HoI-
brooks scheme as cheerful one.
We are inclined to differ with this
writer Theories and schemes that
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