Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-05-06

which the window was broken. No one passed
up the ladder at that time
Court here adjourned to this morning at 0
o'clock
chicago as seen by the "staro Beecher.
The Rev. HENRy W Anp BEEcnrR has written
''star paper rejoicing over Chicago. He
says:
II makes little difference how much one has
travelled, or what he has seen, if he has not been
in Chicago. He may have worn out his curl.
osity on every shore Of the Mediterranean, aud
ransacked the interiors Of each continent until
there is nothing new or exciting; yet there as
something in reserve for him which will excite
the most jaded and sated surprise into new ex-
citement
OF course he was deeply impressed by the
wonderful growth of the Queen City of the
Lakes He says;
Chicago looks ike vast railroad freight de-
pot, and the people have that keeneyed, rest.
less, penetrating look which belongs TO railroad
men, ...
He sees fine streets auj noble buildings, and
is gaddened by the excellence OF the building
material. He writes:
The bufE,colored Milwaukee brick and the
straw colored limestone produce the most
charming effects upon the eye. Nothing can ex-
ceed the exquisite beauty of buildings made of
this huilstO The eye swims in it as in bath
of color am never tired cf looking at it -
Aud it gives an indescribabe cheerlulness to
The confusion of the tumbled up and down
streets of Chicago. The bricks are so nearly of
the same color that brick buildings can be faced
with sioHe without that shock to the eye pro.
dUee1 by unaIble OF brown stone and red brick
large church composed Of these building ma
terials would surpass in beauty either marble OF
common stone. Even that fine stone of which
the Times office building is composed must
rank second to the stone of Chicago. Though
the Caen stone most nearly resembles, it does
not equal it,
For forts and magazines granite has a rugged
and stern effect, eminently fit; but it is 90 grim
and cold Tor common buildings. Brown stone
well selected for color and standing among
other kinds ofmaterial, is good But repeating
this effect, building afser bul1inr -uayra,I, 81
streets.-jt Hr0IUs 6r marble, which lights up
neighborhood if there be but one or two struct-
ures composed OF it, but it, as in Philadelphia,
| it predominates, it produces kind of architect
ural pallor We think the eye would bear more
OF these very delicate yellOws than any other
color that we know, except the old fashioned,
honest rcd That is real brick
The manner of the sidewalks and the screw.
ing of the city out of the mud, especially com
mands the attention of Henry Ward
The city of Chicago stood upon ground which
was both flat aud low, and several grades have
been adopted to remedy the evil But the latest
and supposed final grade is now established,
and the whole city is to be raised from five TO
eight feet! First the streets are raised, aud
then the houses are pulled up to level after
wards. And no tongue can describe the state
OF a city where is going on at once the building
of sewers, the raising ol grades, and the screw
ing up of all the houses, intermixed with an
enormous business, which butts and pushes
and lodges through all manner of obstacles in
the most surprising manner! But il is the side
walk that gives you the most original views o
possibilities. They are made OF brick, or stone
or plank, and the grade of the sidewalk varies
we should think, in some ten or fifteen different
denroos First is one at the old level, five ol
six feet below the grade OF the street, and yoG
walk down there inside of a curb OF Golfer dam
with your head on a level with the horses feet
in tho street But right in the middle of q
block shall bo one store built to the new grade
and the sidewalk looms above your head some
five or six feet to which you rise by steps six
or eight, and proceed the width of the single
store But beyond that you go down two steps
next up three, down six, up two, then up tive
more, then down eight, then up an inclined
plane then mount into an incosed board walk
suspended over an awful chasm where men ar,
screwng up an enormous building.
And if there is possible modification of Bil
feet, through the fundamentally ofstairs, steps
inclined planes or perpendieulars; if there is
possible catalogue Of stretches, jumps, slips
step, tumbles, or toe. stuhbing plunges, that i
not exhausted in the extraordinary varietie
of Lake street, Randolph street, or Clark street
Q then we marvel yet more than ever before at th
/ infinite divisbitY of matter and distance!-
+ Some waggish editors Ofneighborng rival cite
say that genuine Chicago man may be knowr
abroad, as a sailor is off from ship, by certain
mysterious efforts 10 step up invisible stairs, o
[ by an accommodating Of himself on a smootl
, sidewalk to imaginary obstacles.
; But these are orly temporary trouble, an,
when Chicago gets fairly on to her new posi-
I ton, she will be a comey city as we'll a "tre
q mendous place for business" And now, lh
, process which is going on has one element 0
D great interest viz the raising ofbrck and ston
houses Not that the lifting of brick houses Il
a new thing. But il screwing up whole block
at once, and lifting whole street, is no
new in fact il is new 10 me, Buildings q
brick or stone, one hundred aud fifty feet by tw
- | hundred ana HVe hLOFea hlguJ are thlheu eiBh
i feet or ten, without a crack OF the displacement
= Of a Single thing. A hotel contracts 10 be LITE
: up. In short time two thousand screws ar
under il, and little by little the house rises
4 Nothing is changed within. The kitchen cooks
4 the dinning-Toom eats, the bar drinks, and a
! the rooms smoke, as if nothing was going on -
A block of stores and offices begins this neV
q process of growth, and all the tenants maintain
4 their usual functions; and except the outrageou
i heaps Of dirt and piles of lumber, everything
goes on as before The plank into the doc
# gets little sleeper every day But goods com
4 in and go out, aud customers haunt the usu,
!, pieces.
4 II is worth visit TO Chicago to see me-
i method of digging city out Of the mud, an
in a great deal better state Of preservation cha
4 Pompsii and Heroulaueum when dug ont Of IL
a ashes,
j PUnLIo MEETrN0.-M Many people from yariol
4 sections Of the county are desiTous OF having
> public meeting 10 express their views in relate
- to the case of the Wellington Reecuers We thr
" such meeting should be held by all means,
% soon as matters progress far enough 10 enab
, the public 10 know what will be the result
4, the trials. The matter Of time is for you, gei
y tlemen, to determine We hope the voice
+. tha npoDle of Iofain will he Heard In a ma,