|SKTOB¥ OP THE BEiVEB VAL* and man y imagined that a large city was I.EY. at their feet. But when the Economites - 1 — invested all they could, the C««ptD»op'aence of the PUtsbargh Gazette. obafps, FESSENDENS, BLAKB9 Beaver Valley, August, 1873. aud others, exhausted their immediate [Paper No. 23.] aaeaua, then the day! .dreamers went to ‘ With'all the charming memories of the dreaming again, andso they will tleep past that duster eo richly around. And dream, Bip Van Winkle* like, until the history op this valley, something or other “turns up,” or turns pith all its favored resources for unlimit* them up. They will probably - arouse, «d expansion of industries, and with all sufficiently to pray “Good fortune send us the advantages, business, coda! or do- a few mere Pittsburghers and New mastic, that it has, it has not yet ad* Yorkers and Bcoaomites,"—without the vaneed beyond, a fewseparate towns, Chinese. . . r ; anythjng In cbmmon bnt A Cincinnatian was among ns a lew. jealousies and rivalries Thfere f/ no days since, stayed: over Sunday; got * I well-bull t, thriving and populous city carnage, went to Beaver. Alum Bocks 1 that tnany ofthe early settferrdftamed and-Beaver Falls. Was asked, “Well, I of, nor a thithe of that prosperity that how do yon like our neighborhood t” I they labored so hardLto bring Id pass. K “Very well,” laid he, “a good, quiet place I neighborhood cannot thrive and grow to rest, and were it not for the few fee- { on the prestige of past ; success, or by vain boasting about what beneficent na* ture has so bountifully bestowed upon it Bay dreaming never made either an in dividual or a community great, but, on the contrary, the most untiring industry and the hardest of labored toil can alone wrest from'a grudging world the treas ures that are in it. By first apologizing for the presumption of suggesting im provement to men much my superior in years and experience, I take the liberty— humbly, of course —to point out A FEW OF THE SEEDS. The pressing and imperative needs of this otherwise favored region, of course, it is not intended to even mention all of them, that were too great. a task, but merely to call attention to a few of the most pressing. The first is the want of; enterprise on the part of all Us citizens, Beaver day dreamers. There Is not a man or woman in it but can and does suggest a .thousand and one im- the one five-hundredth part of which, if carried out, would make the place famous. There is plenty of theory, any number of planners of campaigns, but precious few who are willing and ready to execute them. Every general rule seems to have its exceptions, so I most make a few honorable exceptions in this general arraignment. There are a few NOBLE SPIRITS AMONG US, who bear the brunt of the battle, and never lag in any enterprise. Is there a proposition for iron works, gas works, water works—they are on hand, and their names head the list of subscriptions, and their time is devoted to the interests of the enterprises. But there are scarce ly enough to save us from destruction. Ten righteous men, you will remember, would have saved a doomed city at one time, but the city was lost—not because none were there, but not enough. I would very much dislike to see ten righteous, enterprising men taken from Beaver Valley; not that it would thereby be lost, but there would be a great stag nation. The facts are, that these towns are literally at a stand still for the want of enterprise. Of course, a full-bound volume of the last census will be thrown at me at this juncture. Has not BEAVER PALLS INCREASED TEN FOLD within ten years, and has not New Brigh ton increased fifty per cent, in population in the same period? True, but it was ontside enterprise. Name a factory started in New Brighton, Pallston, Bridge water or Beaver, in ten years, by home enterprise. You can count ' every one of them that is now in successful operation on the thumbs of your two hands. It is true that Rochester has a large tumbler establishment and a coffin factory, but the old glass works in Bridgewatel and the National Plow Factory in Rochester have slopped; and this all within ten years. Beaver Falls is PULL OF FACTORIES. What are they? A. cutlery, removed from Rochester—not much gain; a file factory, saw factory, axe factory, brush factory—all large and paying—but who built them ? Men outside of Beaver Valley. The old paper mill, flouring mill, foundry, and a few smaller estab lishments are the products of Beaver Valley enterprise. Notice further, that nearly every home enterprise of any magnitude, most of the flouring mills, woolen mills, wire factory, some of the lonndaries, twine and paper factories, were started from * TWENTY TO FIFTY AND SIXTY YEARS AGO, scarcely any within ten- years, started at a time when your Townsends, Merricks, Hoopes, Miners, Wilsons, Pattersons. Bakers, Wildes, Pughs, and a mighty host of workers were in active life. The eons of these men who have remained In the Valley foim the larger part' of some enterprise to-day, aided by some others not identified with the early life of the Valley. But these are but a small number, and the majority of them are cramped for want of means. Outside of these there are men with ample means, hut they lack the spirit and enterprise. The leaven most work in the pockets of these men before any great work is done for the good of the Valley, Now as Ur THE INCREASE OP POPULATION. What brought ft to Beaver Palls? It was the direct' effect of the building of the mill*, &c.,by outside parties. The mills already in operation had their hands and they needed no more. The carpen- ters, bricklayers, masons, etc., came to build homes for the hands employed in "the new mills and as well for the em ; ployerr, and for their own immediate vite. Greai excitement was the result, toriespn the race, you could take a Bip Van Winkle sleep.” Bless the gentleman from Porkopolis, the factories don't dis turb ns any, kind o’lulls us to sleep, and then, under their gentle murmur, we dream all about them and imagine our selves brave fellows. The Chinese will Jurn out to BE A BLESSING IN DISGUISE. The good people had been pleasantly day dreaming for about one ahd one half years when this foreign and detested element came among us. It turned us up, and there more energy displayed than had been seen for many a day. The Beavefs became strong, active men once more, as they are naturally, and the way things flew about generally was a caution to everything in the heathen line, and this uprising had a good effect—just like it is every lime, when our people deter mine to do' a th|Ug, they do it—aud the Chinese are leaving, and then when I AH PIN and all those Aba have betaken them selves to a more congenial clime, will, in all probability, go to dreaming again, until something else turns ufe up. / Ob, shame, descendenta of those old worthies who wrested this fair heritage from the bauds of the savage, are you going to sit calmly dovj|h and watch all these mighty natural powers elude your grasp, aud not utilize them? Jlemember the TOWNSENDS, HOOPE3, PUGHS, AND WIL sons, who seventy years ago made this prater power work for them, and emulate their example by making the valley bloom as a rose. New Brighton wants gas works, and the enterprise is put on foot. Some of onr very best men are pat on the com mittee, and they bead the list with their names and means. FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ABE WANTED, and after weary weeks and months of anxious waiting the books show not one half the stock taken. Of course this is mainly from an over-whelming sense of modesty and something else. Mr. B is asked to subscribe, and he says, “Well, I can't tell just yet, but think I can help it; but I'il not put my name down until certain others have." Messrs. C, D and E all do the same thing until the end of the alphabet, until it comes to X. He has a little home and enough surplus for five shares. He feels the need of the en terprise and gladly invests in it. The modest people applaud X for bis spirit, &c., but he stands alone almost, outside of the committee. But then, what do we want with gas ? Haven't we an occasional lamp on our streets? All true enough; we have street lamps, but we have run out of oil and they are of no account ex cept on moonlight nights, when most any one can walk alone. So it may be that New Brighton may settle down to the good oldNtimes, and have none of your new-fangiqd pipes and burners and the terribly dangerous gas. We won’t stand it to have our property taxed to pay for putting down ■ pipes and furn ishing gas to light np our streets. What’s the use in it? There is none, ’tis true. People in the rural districts ought to go to bed when the birds do, and tbey won’t need gas. Then there is Beaver Falls, has had a charter for gas works these many months, and yet there is not the remotest sign of gas to light the streets. From “block house run” on the south, to Barnardville on the north, ye inhabitants can clamber over stones and galleys and cellar doors, and wade through mud or dust, as it may be, just aa your fathers and mothers used to do. Don’t need gas, of course not, couldn’t clamber and wade if we had it. And so we must dream over this a while. Men of ample means won’t in vest, and the enterprising men who do the work can’t invest for want of funds, and the enterprise must stop. And WHY DON’T MEN OP MEANS INVEST? Oh, they have invested, and been “fooled” and lost some of their money. Not a very strong argument, it it true, but then it is sufficient to prevent onr pleasant dreams from being disturbed. Enterprising BEAVER PALI* BO* WATER WORKS. Good old Beaver has water works. )New Brighton has no. Water works—don't need any. We have two town pomps and plenty of private wells and cisterns, and pray what do we want with water works? Beaver Falls end' Beaver peo ple have water in their kitchens end rooms; the rest of the towns have it there, too, or if not there,there Is plenty of it in Beaver iad Ohio rivers. But 1 NEW BRIGHTON has two historic pumps. The wells were dugaud the logs hewed out, lo! many years ago, and these old pumps have >■ fiADIGALt JfiID W AiDGttJST 59, J 873. THE watered many a man add beast | for all tbeee years; bat like the old-fashioned “sweeps” of still earlier times, they re* quire no amount of muscle. There is probably no institution in the town that hat been the innocent, danse of mere profanity than these poor; old, unoffeod ing pumps. Here most of qur good peo ple who are pear enough get titer wpt plies otwater. Little hays swing them* selves op the hapdles of tbe pump§,untll they haye gymaatics enoogh for a week, beforatheygetVhelrbncitaes foll Hard workin«yTP*aen, leaTin‘gthelr children to baste to the wells tagetwhak need. bb I hew they injjy JUchael of qldi bdr com* placencyofmind, M at thewelfsbe drew water for nan and while they, poor women, must needs almost break; Ibelr backs and lame their arms to get enbugh for the good, enterprising husbands coffee. But 18 THERE NO DEFENCE Tpß THESE OLD ' *DMPO? \ | ! / Yes, there, is, and | gladly don my coat of mail to be the knight that shall de* fend their fair feme, ktany a tired, weary man and beast has been refreshed at these fountains. The man who pat thorn there deserves the chicest blessings and bene dictions of all the people for the great good already done. Bat oh, ye town fathers, oh, ye men of capital and enter prise, don’t ym know that in the mate lions of time better fountains for water supplies' hare been found than these pumps I Have you never heard of re servoirs and hydrants ? Have yon never,*; seen the weak child and weary woman unthrottle the pipe that held the gurg ling waters, without pain or backache ? Don’t you know that even wells and cisterns give out in times of drongh ? Tnen don’t you see the need of water works? But they cost money! Do they? How much, suppose you, have those two solitary pumps cost the goodly borough of New Brighton ? Enough to pay interest on money borrowed to put in operation water works. Yea, much more. There is scarcely a “quarter” in the year but the “Squire” and his helpers may be seen wrestling with the old south ward pump. They pump, but 16! no water comes. They take oat the sacker and put in a new one. Again they pump and no water comes. They take opt the old logs and depn them, put them back again and pomp, but no water comes. Again the logs are lifted and cleaned and scraped, and sawed and refitted until the work seems perfect. Again they pump and no water comes. That pump is re fractory, and the “Squire” retires - in disgust from the field, discomfited, beaten, and now it takes a hercules to bring water from the depths, through that old pump. It costs money to build water works. Yes, and they can be made, to pay a fair dividend Wb6n they are built; Of all the towns in this valley, New Brighton, more than any other, needs water works. 1 MESSRS. MINER a MERRICK have done what they could to supply a part of the town from their spring, but ii necessarily does not meet the one-twen tieth part of the demand. Bat we NEED SOMETHING ELSE yet. We need a general and moat thor ough cleaning add fixing up. Why, Beaver Valley streets and mud and dust have become proverb lal. Streets cover ed with holes and hills, side walks dilapi dated and neglected, sewers choked with "smart-weed” and "dog-fennel,” cellars open for pedestrians to stumble in, boles to break the shins of night walkers in, and lay the foundation for bills ol damages. GENERAL NEGLECT—GENERAL DISORDER. Here it is again, no money. If no better can be done, why net borrow money ? Get in debt by doing that. Of coarse we’ll get in debt, and what’s our town worth unless they are in debt ? Debt means taxation, and taxation means the unsettling of the nerves of onr good, con servative, modest people. In addition to alt’ this, we must have more business for onr people. These water courses must be lined with factories and mills, or just as. sure as we exist, so surely will we stop right still and die in our tracks, an un la mented and nUmourned death. Enter* prise, men,— enterprise, enterprise, work and will are what we want. We mast dream less and act more, or we can never reach the goal of onr ambi tion. Why let onr powers and capabili ties lie dormant when there is so much that can be done and at so little a cost. “Let us, then, BE UP AND DOING, with a heart for any fate,” never falter ing, never losing courage, never; looking back, until we shall be what we ought— to be—one of the most prospered .people onGod’s fairfootstool. . Bat bow can we erect mills and fac tories ween we have not (he means to do bo? We can build gas works probably, we can build water works, perhaps, we can repair our streets, &c.,if it must be, bnt it Is Car beyond the bounds of posibill ty, that we can utilize all this water power. What can be expected ■of ns in this.regard? That brings me tin a point, that reminds me of sbnmthing else I have tojay, and must say it. I promised the good Gotes&ipeople that No. 33 would relieve them of any further Infliction from this series of notes, but how i CANI BSFBAZRFBOU HO. 24 ? ' So I will (ell yon in another letter, that one of your greatest needs, is the "attrac tion of brains and capital to the 1 Valley,” and that yon ought to show "liberally to ' ■ I : • • f those who wish to come among you to aid yon In developing the valley,” and one or two other points, all of which will he told very briefly, plainly and humbly . Now, neighbors and friends, with an earnest hope that yon may at once awaken to active; duty and labor, I bow my beat bow, and invoke npon yon the gnardlanship of the good and mighty overruling spirit of enterprise. Civil Service taciUou. Giro the year, month, day, boar, and minute of your birth, to the belt of yodr knowledge and belief Do you believe InDarwinism f If go, bow many of your ancestors do you cal culate yon would be compelled to dig up before you found an extra length of spine ? When ifftbe belt time to trim corns ? Do you differ from Webster in your style of spelling? If so, in what words t At the present rate of punishing crime, how long will it be before murderers are pensioned ? What was the number of acres in Rhode Island when first discovered ? Do yonr shirts open in front or be hind ? What was the name of the Sony of Ansterlitz, and did the old man have any daughters ? Who whs Secretary of the Navy while the Erie Canal was built ? Do any members of your family make any pretentions toward Lent, save your umbrella and brass kettie? Who was commander-in-chief of the armies of the United States, when Sergeant Bates made his raid through England? In your judgment, which should pre vail, the bias of jurisprudence or com pulsory hanging, where the jury are tem porarily idiotic ? Are you well posted in vulgar fractions and polite literature of the day ? Is there any sentiment in the human heart more tender than the bosom of a dollar-store shirt ? What is the length of the Chicago River, and how far from its mouth is it navigable for light-draught ducks? Did the Smiths come to America* be fore the Browns ? If so, why ? In what year was the Colorado potato bug patented? Should lighting rod peddlers be allow ed to vote until after death ? Who was thff fruit dealer who first cried "Hang out your bananas on the outer walls, the cry is give ns rum ?” Square a Cincinnati hog’s root, by taking a segment from the circle of his tail and adding it to the diameter of his nose? Are you in favor of "local option" as applied to sparking on the gate of your prospective father-in-law f Under what circumstances would you suspend the habeas corpus act in order to string up a milk-peed ler ? Give the names of six of the wealthiest horse doctors in the country since the epizootio left. At which end of a chicken-pie do you commence an attack ? Do you prespire freely while carving before a large dinner-party ? Does it take any more cloth to dress the Goddess of Liberty in fashionable attire, than it does to rag. out Hail Columbia, so that the Washington society papers will notice her? Which is the greatest female character in history—Joan of Arc dr Lydia Tomp son? Are yon insured In the Travelers, o Hartford ? I f so, how much ? h Stand on your bead and repeat the multiplication table backward, at the same time give the "Heathen Chinee” in Latin, and sing "We may be happy yet.” This comprises the most important questions in the list. We hare omitted a few pretaining to mathematics and gram mar, bat the above will convey to the minds of young men who desire govern - mental positions some idea of what they most undergo previously. Missouri Democrat , St. Louis. TRe meddlesome monkey. There was a meddlesome monkey that set out to reform the world. "Milk isn’t good for yon,” be said to the cat. Upsetting the saucer, and the cat scratched one of his eyes ont. 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