French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-04-12
OBSERVATIONS OF A NORTH
CaROLINIAN IN THE WEST
Thomas J. Rickman.)

A nah was heard to say the other
day that if there ever was a time when
the world of mankind was bleeding
and wounded that time is now. He
said there had never been a day since
Adam was in the garen OF Eden. down
to thiseyear of 1917, when humanity
was wearing many bandages. had as
many broken bones and bleeding
wounds, missing limbs, darkened eye
/ sight and deaf ears and when listening
peopIe began t inquire why it was 80,
he said the orator was ready to an
nounce that it all happened and was
brought about for some reason by the
LProvidential goodness of God. Instead
of announcing as he should. that the
reason and cause of it all. was be-
cause of h~eathenism, savagery, barbar-
ism and that miserable old garbage
nd ~ofal-refuse, "the divine right OF
kings" nabobs, moguls, pashas, kaisers
and common keepers of n%unneries and
harams.
In Clifornia and some of the other
! Western States, what we call a bully
! they call a hoodlum and the most con-
temptable imposted of humanity in this
| disgusting. unwanted rowdy. The
royal trash of Europe must have gone
on in their gluttony and runkenness.
until they have become bullish hood
Iums. California despises the and their
bloody ways and we Fasteners are
ready to join hands and hearts with
them and help the million of Gods
true sons and daughters. over whom
they wickedly reign. to come out from
under them and live in that blessed
democracy of freedom, as do the chill
dren of the United States, France and
England with a few old relics and
shackles, there yet to be knocked OFF
from them, which will son be done.
But it was the West instead of
Europe we were to write about, so we
will turn away from kings and go to
our lesson. Returning from the West
and a western trip is not wei described
if Cincinnati is not taken into cons1d-
Grafton, since we have a Carolina
Special train every day. running
through our towns right from thai
great city, on the North bank of the
great Ohio. She claims a.half million
people and until the last census was
the largest burg in the great state OF
Ohio. when Cleveland on the bank OF
Lake Erie took the lead, but Cincin-
natl now claims to be the largest city,
Just as both San Francisco and Los
Angeles claim to be the largest cities
in California. There are men living
in Henderson county, % who if they
look back to the day of their birth.
would find Cincinnati to have been Il
town of less than tie nthoa3aId people,
only a little larger than Henderson
Vile, and now with half a million.
Fourteen railroads terminat1ng-a
canal to Lake Erie, steamboats, up and
down the Ohio river-tho largcs+
whiskey and b~eo--making city in the
world-(is that any creditsl but now
thanks to prohibition all that will turn
something more useful-till Chicago
and Kansas City snatched her laurels
away. she was the greatest meat pack
ing city in America-she is now the
banner safe manufacturing town lead
ing all others. More German and
musicians and dancing mas
tiers are to be found in Cincinnati, than
other, and many o~bserYatries, OF
music have been erected-it has long
been known as a German town, haV-
ing almost 100 900 foreign born Ger
but the Jews, Irish, French,
English. Italians and Russians r
now holding their own with the dutch
4uhCA OAO4Sn PSSP4N
ways interested in the churches of a
city-well it may not suit everybody,
but the Catholics are far, far, lin the
lead. ST. Peters Cathedral, built in.
pure Grecian style, is 200 feet long
and 80 feet wide and has a stone spire
rising 224 feet and if sucn d building |
as that, would not tempt the Lord OF
the Universe to come in, what building
However. the Presbyterians. !
not to be outdCne, have a church
building as large an Gwita = sDire
$40. feet high. while the Methodists
have one as large and a spire 200 feet
high-the Baptist come next. with a
new similar building and the spire not
yet completed, but they say it shall go
800 feet-nit to be outdone by-these
other people of the Lord of hosts. The
Episcopalians have many ire churches.
There is not only sharp competition in
commercial business, but religious
competition equally as cutting. On
the South side. of the River is Coving-
and Newport, both large towns
and in the State of Kentucky and are
reached by the wonderful steel bridges
almost 1900 feet lone and 100 feet
above low water mark-the steel was
furnished by the Roeblings now of
Asheville and each bridge cost over
50, GOO, 900 and how cities like Cincin-
natl ever do mass the hundreds of mil
lions of money they have. would be
hard to calculate. The town fronts
over ten miles on the Ohio River, has
"a square miles Of territory. many
parks. the leading one of which
is Eden Park, which contains PIG acres
and if the original garden Of the same
name, ba das much money spent on it
has this one, then poor Old Father
Adam surely missed it in not holding
It is a western saying that when
lady begins to put on jeweIry, that
is a sign she is ever forty and getting |
ready to Quit. ShOuld ieMelrv fail SO