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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1856
Abstracts 401 - 403
COMMUNITIES & PLACES (Cont'd)
to come there will be no considerable manufactories beyond Milwaukee, and
not even that city, or Detroit, or Chicago can compete with Cleveland.
"We invite the attention of the manufacturing and transportation interest
of Cleveland to these observations." (14)
COMMUNITY GROWTH
401 - L Mar. 10; ed:2/1 - Capitalists of this city, instead of turning
their attention to those pursuits which would build up its prosperity, are
intent on skinning those who seek to accomplish this end. Eastern capitalists
have come here, examined localities, made preparations for commencing
business, and have been forced to leave for the same reason.
Many citizens have left for this reason. The time has come when our city
must either move forward or go backward. There can be no standstill.
Millions of dollars in property in the city today are not paying a
cent to the owners. If half of this were invested in manufactures, it
would bring over a million dollars a year to the wealth of the city and
create employment for many. A meeting will be held tomorrow night at the
Melodeon to furnish statistics.
"Let every man who values greatness of Cleveland attend the meeting
tomorrow night." (13)
402 - L Mar. 15; cd: 2/1 - All who are conversant with the history of
Cleveland are aware that its growth was slow, until impetus was given
it by projection and completion of the many railroads that center here.
Cleveland then assumed a position as prosperous as any city.
One thing remains to check the current of fatality that seems to
attend places having an impulsive growth, and that is manufacturing. Raw
materials of all description can be assembled here as cheaply and easily
as in any place in the United States. No thinking man with capital shall
stop here when we have only commerce to sustain us. A manufacturing town
gives a man of means full scope for his ambitions. The manufacture of
cotton seems to take precedence here, as fuel is cheap.
"Wi 11 not capital ists of Cleveland interested in its welfare come forward
and help themselves in this matter. They will not only enable the
poor to live independently, but fiiI their own pockets with gold." (13)
403 - L Dec. 3: 1/5 - In a speech del ivered at the St. Andrew's festival on
Dec. I, B. J. Maltby touched on the manufacturing and commercial interests
of Cleveland. "Cleveland," he said, "has a present and a future in both
these departments. She has one of the grand mediterraneans of this continent
at her feet. She sent out the first bark that has gone from these inland
seas to brave the storms of the ocean, and she is now among the foremost
of the shipbuilding towns of the lakes. When you write back to your
parents, brothers, sisters, and children, say to them, that here is one of the
homes of the happy, prosperous, and th"! free, a place whose present IS one
of great progress, and her future one of greatness and strength." (22)
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