We must gather diligently that we may have the opportunity of choice, and we must sift carefully that the best only may be preserved. Whether or not it was so intended, the suit, it seems, became much like a suit to obtain a proper construction of a contract. (The writer was present at that term of court and obtained from the court the requisite certificate, which he subsequently presented with his New York license to the clerk of the supreme court at Mount Vernon and obtained an Illinois license. It halted everything in congress for government aid; but while the Cairo men were pushed aside as to their own railroad plans, they accepted the situation and did all they could for the state central railroad from Cairo to Galena, and went on with their city work here at home and in London. Download the plug-in here, if you do not already have it. He was something more and better than that. It would be much more useful, at least for us here, were those parts of it relating to Cairo and Alexander County brought together and, with a good index, bound in a separate volume. Their men, who were chiefly Irishmen, were almost starving and they needed supplies for them. At no distant time in the past the two rivers may have united just south of Mounds. He looked upon the town as so situated that the rules applicable to most places not larger could not be closely applied to it. 105-111. He had been in the war, and came to Cairo a short time. THE CENTRAL BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION was established in 1899. "But," said he, "so thought each of the others, and no one was upon speaking terms with all the others at the time of his death." Annual expenditures on the library collection total $5,200. It was supposed that a permanent post could be thus established which would greatly aid in protecting the frontier country. Illinois Then, too, Mayor Parsons has added about thirty-five thousand dollars to the city's annual revenues by obtaining an increase of the saloon license fee from five hundred to one thousand dollars. During the Rev. THE CAIRO DRAINAGE DISTRICT.The Cairo Drainage District was established in 1889. Presidential elector on the Republican ticket, 1868, Daniel W. Munn; on that ticket, 1872, David T. Linegar. It is well known that the people generally, or a large majority of them, in the southern and southeastern part of the state, sympathized with the south but not largely to the extent of disunion. Internet terminals are available for use by the general public. They remained here after that time. This is an amazingly building with fine woodwork and a second floor meeting room that had two or three pianos. All fear of the Indians had passed away; but the remembrance of them long remained with the old settlers, who took real pleasure in recounting the trying and perilous times of the earlier days they remembered so well. They did not seem to have needed or wanted anything besides what the county and state could afford them until 1855; for in that year, at an election held in the railroad station house, it was decided that they would establish a town government, and on the 8th day of March they held an election for town trustees. Show your pride in battlefield preservation by shopping in our store. The Eighth Street lots had been conveyed to the church for church purposes, with a clause in the deed providing for a reversion. Perhaps he never thought much about what it would or could afford him. The new world, or our part of it, was the prize between the Anglo-Saxon and the Latin. The Rev. A few years ago, however, it was thought best to make an effort to open and conduct the same as was originally intended by the act of incorporation. It seems to have arisen out of a desire to. There were exhibited all those appearances of foreign landlords; for such were the actual relations of the Trustees to the people. Those contracts were. The road has quite a history, and there were many acts of congress passed in regard to the same. The road had been bonded, as were and are almost all roads, and consequently it came out of the war burdened with a very heavy indebtedness. At all events, those I have and the large number belonging to the Trustees ought to be preserved in our public library in some suitable shape or manner. They had to give up their own railroad scheme; but they succeeded in having their city site at the junction of the two rivers made the southern terminus of the state's railroad. From failure to keep a close watch upon the situation or rather to make the needed repairs, the river worked in behind the ridges of broken stone, and it was not very long until the stone piles were found to be out in the stream. Col. John S. Hacker, the grandfather of our Capt. This trust instrument executed by Thomas S. Taylor, of Philadelphia, and Charles Davis, of New York City, will be found recorded in the book "N" on pages 465, etc., of our county records. They are interesting for a number of reasons, chiefly, perhaps, for showing the line of the state's Illinois Central Railroad under the act of February 27, 1837. And when any levee was to be pierced or cut anywhere or for any purpose, the engineers were examined, cross-examined and minutely instructed, and supplementing it all we would see him personally present to make sure all was going on just right. Had there been no railways, my prophesy would have proven correct. This was done for quite a length of time. I have before referred to Mayor Thistlewood when speaking of the flood of 1882. The library circulates 27,624 items per year. The act was amended in some particulars but chiefly by the act of May 18, 1796, which prescribed fully, as above stated, how the surveys of the public lands should be made. At the close of the war, many citizens of Cairo, including Dr. Horace Wardner, who had been associated with the sisters in their hospital work, urged the Order to establish a permanent infirmary in the city; Mother Angela, then mother-general of the Order, came to Cairo in October, 1867, and with the assistance of Dr. Wardner secured a temporary location on Eleventh Street, between Commercial Avenue and Poplar Street, and placed Sister M. Augusta and Sister M. Matilda in charge. The roads together with the rivers reaching southward and northeastward and northwestward give us transportation facilities equaled by very few other places in the country. By the act of February 17, 1841, the Cairo City and Canal Company had been vested with all the powers of the City of Quincy; and on the 23d day of May, 1843, the Company passed an ordinance providing for the collection of such dues, a photograph copy of which, signed by D. B. Holbrook, is given on another page. . Comegys was a resident of Baltimore; Bond, Jones, Brown, and Humphreys, of Kaskaskia; Hunter of St. Louis; and Harris, Herbert and Slade, of Virginia, Harris of Richmond, and Slade and Herbert of Alexandria. The following are the names of the lawyers, physicians, and dentists now resident in the city: After these there were one or two other fire companies but all of them were practically discontinued when, under the lead of Mayor Charles O. Patier, the council established the paid fire department of the city. Map of Township 17 and Route of Proposed Canal. David J. Baker, whom every one esteemed very highly, was the chairman of the board of public works. Our county has had but one member of Congress and that is our present member, the Hon. It was a kind of revelation; and although Woodward himself has gone away, yet the system will no doubt be maintained until we have banished the seepage water by filling up the places which it annually invades. Mr. Michael J. Howley, who has for a long time done so much in the way of gathering and printing in our city papers interesting matters of local history, could perhaps do more than any one else in furthering such an undertaking as this. It was authorized to purchase and hold not exceeding fifteen acres of land for cemetery purposes. The people, or a great many of them, have wanted a rather free and easy administration of police matters, a kind of administration that is likely to become entirely too free and easy, even for the advocates of the free and easy policy. It was started again in 1836, but lived out scarcely ten years. The pay of the members of the legislature was $2.00 per day. In the last days of the Cairo City and Canal Company, when the proprietors, or their representatives, were taking their departure, what they had left here was seized upon and made way with without ceremony or any form of legal proceedings. Of his remedy for the tertian fever, he says: "I found an excellent remedy for curing. Seventy-five years of the general business experience of our country would be interesting could it be condensed into a volume or two and proper space given to what has been lost and won in what the world persists in calling gambling in railroad stocks. The situation is not of our nor of their making. Its name was changed to "The Halliday" and opened under the new management July 1, 1881. Those colonies without territorial possessions urged that the territories should be ceded to the General Government, because, they said, they had been won and secured by the common blood and treasure of all the colonies. That the conveyance made to the said New York Life Insurance and Trust Company by the said Cairo City and Canal Company, 2nd. Libraries Closed now 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Call Write a review About Suggested duration 1-2 hours Suggest edits to improve what we show. 1864Samuel S. Taylor, 354; David J. Baker, 380. The minutest opening in the bottom of the vessel will permit a stream of water to shoot up almost to the level of the brim. THE FLOODS OF 1832 AND 1840.The English bond-holders, in 1840, sent to Cairo Mr. Septimus Worsley, of London, to examine and report the condition of things he found here; and in a letter dated Cairo, Illinois, July 14, 1840, he says, speaking of the levees: THE FLOOD OF 1844.As elsewhere stated, Mr. In the old city charter of February 11, 1857, the legislature extended the city's boundaries to the middle of the main channels of both rivers, but this if could not lawfully do as to the Ohio. Sketch of the City of Alton, referred to in the "Prospectus of the Cairo City and Canal Company.". Although seemingly very much out of place, we introduce here the matter of the high water of June, 1858, when a break occurred in the Mississippi levee and caused an inundation of the city. The Immanuel Lutheran Church.The Immanuel Lutheran Congregation of Cairo was organized in October, 1866, by Andrew Lohr, Christian Schulze, Robert Bribach, Henry Harris, Gustave Beland, Henry Miesner and Fred and Henry Whitcamp. I may also add that I have probably, here and there, devoted too much space to certain matters and too little or perhaps none at all to others of greater importance. He was also liked very much, but for reasons of health, I believe, he desired to go elsewhere. From that time forward, he became the leading spirit of the enterprise, long drawn out and beset with many difficulties. Bailey and he made a trip to New Orleans in 1840, on. Chas. This close connection of the starting of the city of Cairo with the origin or starting of the Illinois Central Railroad, I will now proceed to set forth as briefly as a clear understanding of the matter will allow. I cannot enumerate the measures he started and carried through for the material improvement of the city. Just what the circumstances were that seemed to require or justify this increase in the stock we do not know. Col. Taylor's reasons for opposing it no doubt arose from the fact that his Trustees owned more low lots and grounds than almost all the other people in the city, and that the assessments thereon would become a heavy burden, very difficult to be borne by them. This bonded indebtedness trouble of the city hung upon and clouded it for many years beginning with 1876. He was the senior member of the firm of Haynie, Marshall & Gilbert for a while before his removal to Springfield, the junior member having been the Hon. At an early time in life, he sought employment on the Ohio River. It is further said that on the Kentucky side, the company sought to ascertain whether a solid rock foundation for piers could be found at such depths as would justify the undertaking. It must be added, however, that so far as the diseases of typhoid fever, pneumonia, and consumption are concerned, there is not one case here to four or five in central Illinois, supposedly a healthful part of the state. Through the city there was almost a constant stream of soldiers bound northward or southward. ), The men above named were in and by the said trust deed associated together for the purpose of laying out the City of Cairo, and by the charter were given banking privileges. It was known that very soon the colored people of the city were to have the right to vote, and on the day of the election Fountain went about telling his friends that they must come out and. Thos. Part of the time persons could not be abroad at night without passes of some kind from the authorities. We found a large number of clippings from it among Col. Taylor's papers, which were and are as innumerable as the sands of the seashore. My first recollection of him extends back to the time when he had not even thought of becoming a writer or an editor. It will not keep the seepage out or down, but it will keep it out of view, and it will so raise or lift the earth surface that for many purposes it will be as useful as the higher grounds of the city. Cairo will be the home to the 5th Annual Heritage Blues & Gospel Festival on September 7-9, 2018. I cannot do more, however, than to give a very condensed statement of the facts. For a complete list of populated places, including small neighborhoods and suburbs, visit Hometown Locator. The bronze fountain, Fighting Boys, is an original work of art by Janet Scudder, one of America's foremost sculptors. We cannot pursue this matter further than to say that July 18, 1872, the long pending suit was compromised by a release of the railroad company from the two contracts and its conveyance back to the Trustees of its 100-foot strip of ground around the city and the payment to the Trustees of $80,000.00. He had not much use for strict laws in infringement of personal liberty in this democratic country of ours. As I have before remarked and shown, the present Cairo owes its origin to the Trustees of the Cairo City Property and the Illinois Central Railroad Company. It has been a matter of aloofness, rather, on the part of the white people. Rents went up higher and higher, new but rather temporary buildings rose in great numbers and in every quarter. Its circulation is confined largely to the county, and, we are glad to say, it seems to be well sustained. This shows that at that time there was no island adjoining or near to the Illinois shore; otherwise it would have been embraced in William Bird's purchase of fractional section 36. Charles Kenmore, October, 1856, to June, 1857; Rev. About this time, it was taken charge of by Mr. William Butler Duncan, of New York, whose very careful and wise management brought the road steadily up from its depressed condition to one of prosperity and assurances for the future. Mr. Thrupp, whose death occurred on the 15th day of July, 1900, was probably better acquainted with the City of Cairo in all its somewhat varied features than any other person, excepting Colonel Taylor. The situation the passage of this act produced was very embarrassing to the Cairo enterprise and its Central Railroad. Their settlements were on the Mississippi River just south of Sante Fe. That would be saying a great deal for them, but not more than they deserve. He was a. Henry S. Dodge, the other trustee or commissioner in the said deed of trust of January 14, 1818, was also a lawyer, and a resident of Kaskaskia and a prominent public man. You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. While he enjoyed eloquent speech and fine writing, he liked best those simpler methods of speech by which truth is brought to light and error disclosed. All north of the Ohio was Canadian and all south Louisianaian. Afterwards it shared largely in the general shrinkage which took place. But I must not go on. They had found it necessary to lay aside every other matter until they had ascertained what was to be done concerning a central railroad. This deed of June 13, 1846, is recorded in Register Book A, on pages 123, etc. In his letter of January 5, 1851, to Breese, he says: "You can learn, if you will take the trouble to inquire of the Hon. THE HALLIDAY BROTHERS.There were five of them, a somewhat exceptional number: William P. Halliday, Samuel B. Halliday, Edwin W. Halliday, Henry L. Halliday, and Thomas W. Halliday. This contest is said to have been a very unusual one and the result very unexpected to Col. Taylor's friends. This may be said to be the time of the starting of the present city of Cairo. THE CEMETERY OF THE LOTUS.On the 3d day of February, 1853, the legislature incorporated the Cairo Cemetery Association. From the "Cairo Times" of 1854, it appears that St. Patrick's church building, thirty-five by seventy feet, with a large roomy basement, was completed under the supervision of Father McCabe and services held therein on Sunday, June 25th, of that year. But we may inquire, what did the Cairo City and Canal Company actually do and perform in the way of starting a city here? Mayor Patier started out to ascertain whether the Linegar Bill was worth anything or nothing. Anything that tends to teach frugality, economy, saving, thrift, should stand in great favor. The central location of the place drew many of them here. As to these features of our situation, it has always been a question of money, much money, to put us on an equality with other places. Its value to the people of the city can in no sense of the word be measured by its cost to them. He has been with it continuously, and it is due largely to his judicious management that the road now occupies a position so favorable and so sharply. He came to lecture and to stimulate the sale of his books, but chiefly in the interest of international copyright. No railroads were built or undertaken. The other three could not be found. In another part of the book is a list of the old maps showing a fort at this place. Wherein it may have been wanting his native talent largely supplied the want. Lincoln saw in Stanton what Halliday saw in Fish. Douglas himself saw this and protested somewhat in favor of others. O. O'Hare, three years, having died in 1883; Rev. Vessels of all kinds it was supposed could enter the wide canal either at the north on Cache or from the Mississippi or Ohio at its southern termini. The low grounds were objectionable in every view of the case, and to get them higher and above seepage and accumulated rain water was a need too plain for argument. These gentlemen had been selected for this purpose under two certain resolutions of the shareholders at a meeting held at the office of the Cairo City Property July 1, 1858, in Philadelphia. This was almost a year before Col. Samuel Staats Taylor came here, which was April 15, 1851. COMMERCIAL BODIES, CLUBS, FRATERNAL ORDERS AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS.I have not had the time to speak of these organizations in detail, and it is quite impossible to say much of them in any other way. First:The present city of Cairo and the Illinois Central Railroad were started at the same time and by the same men, Breese, Baker, Jenkins, Gilbert, Olney and Swanwick, who entered the Cairo lands in August and September, 1835. It was also at the siege of Vicksburg, and was destroyed while in the mouth of the Yazoo River about the 12th of July, 1863, by a torpedo, which it encountered in moving about in that river. 121 to 126. The property was sold under the decree entered in the suit and purchased on behalf of the bond-holders, and on the 1st day of June, 1881, a new company, called the St. Louis & Cairo Railroad Company, was organized, and to it all the property was conveyed. Judging from what Editor Sanders said, the people had hoped that the administration of the Trustees of the Cairo City Property would differ widely and favorably from that. At the risk of taking too much space, I give here the number of votes Col. Taylor and his competitors received at each of the elections of 1857 to 1864, and the names and lengths of terms of all subsequent mayors. It will also be noticed that he speaks of maintaining an armed boat at the point. In 1873, it became part of the first judicial circuit, where it still remains. One (I), whose engine house was on the north side of Seventh Street between the two avenues. John M. Lansden, mayor from February, 1871, to April, 1873. I, will be found the correspondence relating to the matter. The limitations upon her corporate life and action and upon her people have been of a peculiar nature, and have to a greater or less degree interfered with her growth and prosperity. His reception at Boston was altogether a hearty one. They were first brought into service at Belmont November 7th; then at Fort Henry February 7th; then at Fort Donelson February 16, 1862. 13. The book should be a history of the city and not of individuals, excepting, of course, of those persons who have been so identified with its establishment and growth that a history of it with them left out would seem very incomplete. He had been an editor almost all his life. This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. It will be well for both peoples, especially for the colored people, to observe that the experiences of our city during the last eight or ten months have separated them still further apart. This left no part of the river in Alexander County, and reduced the area of Alexander from three hundred and seventy-eight square miles to about two hundred. Offer available only in the U.S. (including Puerto Rico). He was succeeded by Elder John F. Eden, who remained one year. Illinois Regional Archives Depository (IRAD) It was early in the evening, but dark and raining. They were successful in their efforts and work on the building was begun in the summer of 1856. The building was not completed until the early part of 1865, and the first court held therein was the July term 1865 of the Court of Common Pleas, presided over by Judge John H. Mulkey, the judge of that court. The following is from the biographical notices of officers and graduates of Rutgers College, deceased during the year ending June, 1896: WILLIAM PARKER HALLIDAY.Capt. It is the Ohio only which has ever given the city of Cairo any trouble of consequence. He failed to obtain such a contract or a contract upon which such construction could be placed; and that company, having wholly failed and all of its property having been sold in a foreclosure proceeding and transferred to the new company, the St. Louis & Cairo Railroad Company, stripped of all objections of any kind, that source of help or protection, whatever it might have been, has long since passed away. There is now no telling when it was first observed by persons in anywise interested here that the Mississippi side of this site needed to be watched and its cutting away by the river carefully guarded against. On November 21, 1850, ten thousand additional shares were authorized, thus making forty-five thousand shares in all, thirty thousand shares of which were to be received at par to extinguish the liabilities of the Cairo City and Canal Company and to clear off all incumbrances; and the remaining fifteen thousand shares were to be used for the benefit of the trust and for the improvement and protection of the property. Illinois Central Bridge, Ohio River. The first of these became its president, the second its vice-president, and the third its cashier. I only know that when he or any one else undertakes the work of assortment it will be found an exceedingly laborious one. The canal was to extend from Cache River down to the point, a distance of about six miles, and about midway between the two rivers, and at its southern end, it was to send out arms or branches to each river. i CAIRO CREAMERY V," hole-nail) Matiufiicttireri bf ' Pure Cmnm&ry HuUfr Wing's Wad G rntfo Icq Cream. Halliday was so long and so prominent a citizen of Cairo that I may very properly follow the sketches of Holbrook, Gilbert and Taylor with a short sketch of his life. About the last official reference we have to that old hostelry is found in ordinance No. I can only say that he was a strong friend of public improvements, and that too, when our laws were in a poor shape to facilitate public work. In 1891, the present brick church edifice was erected at a cost of nearly $11,000. C. M. Collins, C. M., of Cape Girardeau, who occasionally visited Cairo to minister to the Catholic people here, a frame church building, about thirty-six feet square, was erected upon posts at the intersection of 18th and Ohio Streets, in 1838. This he started out to do, as we have already set forth in Chapter IX; but he was succeeded in office by one of our citizens, who was lukewarm about the matter, although quite active about many other things; and so the work Patier started was. Their claims to the country were based on the right of discovery and on other grounds not necessary to be noticed here. The 5th article of the ordinance of 1787 bounded our state, or the third of the proposed states, by the Mississippi, Ohio and Wabash rivers and by a line from the Wabash to the north boundary line of the territory and made its north boundary line "an east and west line drawn through the southern bend or extremity of Lake Michigan. The list of. MRS. MARY C. BARCLAY N. B. Thistlewood, our present congressman, succeeded Winter and was mayor from 1881 to 1885, and again, from 1897 to 1901, four terms. It would seem that the one book, the "American Notes," would have been sufficient to satisfy his resentment, for such it seems to have been. I ought, therefore, to be fairly well acquainted with what has taken place, during that time, in and concerning the city and which was worthy of record or of a place in its history. This was the bank authorized by the act of January 9, 1818, entitled, "An Act to incorporate the City and Bank of Cairo," granted to John G. Comegys and others by the legislature of Illinois territory. It is not easy, always, to state the extent and operation of a judicial decision; but it seems that if civil process may be properly served on the Ohio River and beyond low-water mark fifty or one hundred feet and within the territorial jurisdiction of a Kentucky or West Virginia county, there is little reason why it may not be served anywhere on the river within fifty or one hundred feet or less of low-water mark on the Kentucky or West Virginia side. Warren Brown was also a Federal officer of Kaskaskia and a portion of the time the Receiver of Public Moneys there. In the latter respect, it is not much more likely to change than in the former. I have made inquiries at many places and have been uniformly told there can be little doubt as to this old fort being at or near the mouth of the Ohio River and not at the site of Fort Massac. From that time to November, 1884, the church was without a pastor, but was supplied almost all the time by ministers from other places. Mr. Williams continued the publication of the paper at Thebes until 1906, when he removed it to Cairo, and since that time he has continued its publication here.
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