A Secret Move

A Main-st. business man called The Register reporter back to his desk one day last week and revealed to hirn a écheme whioh, he said, certain property holders on Washington street were working on the quiet. It is nothing more or lessthan a delibérate plan to secure a removal of the Post Office to that street. The details of the plan have not all been worked out as yet by those who are engineering the matter. The plan, so far as we have been able to learn, is to quietly bring the right sort of influence to bear upon Gen. Spalding.the congrf ssman from this district, and if possible, secure his assistance by a larga petition signed by the business men in this city declaring that the move is a desirable one. They have made an elabórate plat of the city, showing that seventy-five per cent. of the new buildings which have been erected during the past four years are located south an d east of Washington street, It ís claimed, also, that every business man and resident south of Huron-st. will sign such a petition. It is the contident belief that if such a showing can be made and that if certain capitalists will pledge themselves to erect a suitale building, Gen. Spalding will do all he can to have the change ordered. When some of the leading business men on E. Washington st. were approached for information they were as mum as clams, some of them claiming that there was nothing whatever in the rumor.