The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-12-01


CITY OF DAvENpURT:
SoxDsy ykoaNINe, No1. 81, 1879.
A Gossip assut Chicago
Chicsso il one OF The live institutions ola
liya cosnasy. OF progress ~ ~
uoaument to the 60 aaeadisiseness gilman
insx Assry --ot the energy and enterprise o.
,h,a las. aad best Of al ages. as particularly
illustrated in this country, aud in the Great
West OF it. We have been there often
before, il il true, but never more there
never more generally circulating atom IN
the eseet sekregate Of lis life and business
We have Teen sslonished in frequent .is''s' |
but never SO astonished al oper as during |
,a,s. 4, . veil to occasionally become one |
in the CAicseo whirlpool, just TO have the
sleeping energies aroused, aud the eyes
opened rs TO new things, last men, and the
bounding, elastic enterprise OF the World
around W. Chicago typihes the West In
il 10 coscentrated tina, live, ieaping, 60. ahead
enterprise, which is making our pralries
blossom ss the rose, or sprinkiiHg over them
villages, towns and cities, as with ho~eFs--
which is banding them with railroads and
telegraph hles. and dispeiaag natures quiet
with the hum of machinery and the crash
and CHATTER OF general progress,
But q contemporary who has been making
a dsy's visit 10 Chicago discusses the qaes
ton as to whether things are not being
oveylsse in that city, and re.ulsion musi
not sooner or later take place, throwing
some fast men on their backs, but IA the
end acting as purifying process, iea''ng
the system Of the city in really healihief
condition from lis severe purging We have
nothing 10 do with that We did not wear
the soles off our boots in ransack.ng the ODDS
and ends of Chicago sights, merely to be
able 10 form an opinion as 10 whether
things are overdone or underdone there, or
MS TO v neither this or that man is likely to
break his financial neck in the race of the
reckless, or as 10 whether there is not at
last a huge black cloud lowering over this
city, from which any moment may be drop
ned the thunderbolt with "avenging wing
to lay fast houses and spectators IN com
mon ruin. We merely wished 10 see chi
eago as IL is, and that was too great task
for even country editors leisure.
For wears men have been sagels predict
iap, that things in Chicago have shout
reached the climax, aud the end OF the IN
psraileled rush must soon be seen. There
are no outward evidences at present, more
than there were five years ago, OF the ProS-
unity Of that climax. On almost every street
there are hundreds Of evidences Of even in
crossing progress. New and splendid hon-
ses are taking the places OF the old. Busi-
ness is rapidly extending in every direction.
Every department Of trade seems a9iue-
And, bless your heart. what crowds of peo-
pie throng her streets What countless
vehicles, from the elegant private eqaipsge
and laundering omnibus TO the cart and cab
bage truck. Why We stood on one bridge
for almost half an hour waiting an opPor-
toniiy to safely dodge the two streams OF
vehicles passing Fin opposite directions ever
The structure. There we're twenty vehicles
a minute passing. That's over Thousand
an hour-but il won't do TO count the whole
day at that rate, as the tide of travel ebbs
and flows RICH, in the midst OF this won
derfuI procession OF life and business, pass
ed funeral. The presence OF desth 10 snch
Q scene-the last respect Of the worlds
final shake OF the hand to one Of its depart
Tag atoms, 10 the very strife and turmoil Of
life-seemed startling. But Chicago don't
wait. The atom was jestled along, and the
tears Of the mourners dried up with coal
smoke, dris, and teamsier's damns.
There is sill the same influx Of new pop
ulstion. Every train Of cars appears 10 bring
lis .new comers'' Rents are enormous and
living high, We, they are taken as an evil
with the blessing. Every man seems To
study the openings Of the present andis dis
posed to let the future take care OF itself.-
Chicago therefore plunges along in its same
msd rush, and until its people really begin
10 look more ahead. aud gros cautious, We
are inclined to believe they will be just fool
ish enough to keep Chicago driving forward
for quarter OF = century 10 come, Ikea mad,
ungoyernsbIe impulse. II men get tired Of
paying ten thousand deliars Tor corner
store room, there are plenty on Their track
ready TO .cloee papers" for The same act Of
folly. II others get broken at one hing
there are men Just as eager as they origin
ally we're, 10 try heir luck. II sOne men
hesitate about building, there are others
searching high and low for workmen and
material. If some swear they won't buy an
other lot, there are scores with their peck
cts full o. rocks, ready to snap up anything
offering in the way Of speculation. There
10 no use reasoning over the matter under
rueh circumstances as these. While you
s,op to argue they have made half dozen
moves on the chess boards OF their lives
While you are pointing out the fact Of some
great reyulsion in the future, they have
struck half dozen blows 10 postpone that
very calamity. Stand out Of their way
that's ali they ashland until some otter
spirit comes over their dream, there viii be
no reyulsion in Chicago progress.
But, we only meant TO idly gossip q little
shout Chicago. There are plenty of NINA
,ure chicagos in this region. Davenport is
itself progressing much in the same man
ner The go-ahead spirit is here ia full
blast 1t is doing wonders. aud it ia bound
to accomplish more in given space Of time,
than il has yet done We have no regul-
sion TO fear, for our growth is SIS healthy as
i, has been rapid.