The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-06-15
When Removing Offices to New De-
pot, Old Receiving Book
Was Found.
ONLY NAMES THREE CAIRO
MEN IN BOOK STILL HERE
Shows Large Receipts of Army Sup
plies---1c Per 100 Pounds
Government Tax.

When 9he Illinois Central railroad
freight Offices were removed last
spring, from the old stone depot a
Fourteenth and Ohio streets, wher,
it had stood for nearly fifty years
| to the fine new and modern struc
ture Just then completed, at -Four
| tcenth street and Commercial ave
nue.. all the vast accumulation OF
| old records, papers, etc, that wer'
of any apparent value were packed
and shipped to the main offices o
the road at Chicago.
Among the lot of old books was {
freight entry book of the yea
1865. This, Agent Ladd kept as {
relic. 1t contained the records OF
| the receipt of freight consigned tt
Cairo merchants. The entries cove
period of four months, January
| to April 80.
An examination of the book
through the courtesy of Agent Johr
y. Ladd, showed that not singl
business man who received freigh
during that period is in business il
Cairo today; and only three men
the hundreds named in the book, i.
alive today and reside in this city;
they arc Charles Gallagher, who re
sides at 27lO Walnut street, vii
liam Kluge, 1901 Walnut and w. L
Bristol, 1871 Walnut.
There are few citizens in Cair,
| today that will remember any of The
business men whose names appcal
| on this hook, as with few exceptions
all passed away many years ago.
Among t-lc most familiar name
with the ola residents here may
mentioned Reed & Mann, f. Vim
cent, Herman Meyers, Daniel Hurd
W. II. Schuttor, Halliday Bros, G
u. Williamson a Co, Trover Il Mil
Ter, Cyrus Close, j. s. Rcarden, ]. r
Humphrey, G. w. Henderson. Pete~
Ncff William Lonergan and John @
StanCil. Of those not so well knoWf
may be mentioned Schulcnburg {
Bro, f. T.. Walbridge, II. A. Honey
or, r. NJ Haydcck, Cobb Blaisdel
* Co., John Aiken, Bonacina q Co.
and Fowler & Wicker,
The greatest amount of shipment
into the city at this time were sup
plies for the army OF which Capt i
Flanagan was the quartermaster
The book shows many train load.
VI cattle were shipped in here fror
'hiCago and East st. Louis con
signed to John Aiken and delivered
Dan Abel & Co. Abcll was tn,
father of tho Abel brothers VIII,
ire well known citizens.
There were tens of thousands o
soldiers quartercd here during thi'
| time and these cattle were sold t,
the quartermaster
The capacity Of the cars at this
time was only 10000 pounds Will,
now they run from 10000 to 50,00C
! pounds.
Another noticeable feature wa
the small numbers on the cars, nom
in the book exceeded three number
as the Illinois Central had less bar
900 freight cars at this time Now
the numbers run into five figure
which would mean under 100000
In every entry in the book ap
poared under the amount charge,
tor the freight the government tax
which was cent on ever hundre,
pounds This tax brought consider
able revenue.
The diffcfFrcnce in the freigh
rates then and now is considerable
liFor instance on car of shingle
| from Chicago the freight bill wa
| $3.50; the same size car now tn
| freight would only be S2244. Cycu
Close. grocer, paid 20 cents ~
hundred for supplies from Chicag,
| the rate now would be 2Sie cent,
The difference in the old rate an
that now charged ranges about two
thirds less. according TO the classi
| tication. etc.
Among the items delivered to III
quartermaster here were many can
| Signmnts of cannon. small arms