Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-09-08
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MINIATURES, Sept LIST, 1865.


lightfnl- ride .of4abeut eight. hours OF
beautiful Lake Michigan. The da.
was excessively warm, and boat ridinl
! was unspeakably preferable to tn
crowded and heated cars. The far
from Chicago to Milwaukee by boat i
only two dollars, while by rail it is thre
dollars and fifty cents. l advise m.
! friends to take the lake ride. a'. u
Chicago makes staid countrymai
like me almost dizzy with its whirl o
business. Every body there seems t.
have fully twice to do that any body
should. The sidewalks of Randolph
Clark, Dearborn, Washington, and 9th
er principal streets, are packed with ca
ger humanity, jostling one anotherper
petually, seeming to appeal to the sun
to stand still, though they burn alive
and to ofIermcek prayers to the Almigh.
ty for a little. more room and a little
! more strength. Chicago is very prosper.
Gus. Merchants there were never sel-
ling SO many goods as now.
BY the census nearly completed it is
| claimed that Chicago has over two hun
bred thousand inhabitants; some, how
ever, contend that she has not over one
hundred and seventy thousand. Sheis
big city, any way, and is bound to be
bigger, though her growth during the
next five years will be much slower
than it has been during the past five.
A new Chamber Of Commerce build
ing has just been completed. The in
auguration exercises commenced on
Wednesday, and were to continue thro'
the week. Music, speeches, excursions,
balls, &c, were to be the programme.
Business men of Detroit, Buffalo, and
other Western cities, were to be present
to participate. va W sg.q ,,..ss
/ went up, up, how many hundred
feet l do not know, into the dome of
the court house, n beautiful building,
centrally Situated, to get view of the
city and lake. The last steps of, the
way could hardly draw my weary feet
after me, and the heat was SO oppres-
sive, that person could think of but
little else beside ice cream and ice wa
ter; but, finally up, the cool lake breeze
came floating in so gratefully that |
was hankful to the influence that had
brought me SO near to heaven. Splen-
did view of the city, and as far as the
eye can reach, excepting afterwards,
are house tops, streets, and the life and
activity of the great city. How bcauti-
full the lake looks from this admirable
studded with hundreds of
sail, and looking SO hazy and dreamy
and blue. Visitors should not miss the
view from the top Of the court house.
/ can't say it is only step, for count
ed and found it was just two hundred
steps from the ground.
In the evening I went with my friend
Hobo Allen, remembered by many &C.
dar Falls boys faye! and girls to Woods
Museum, where the play was 1.-THE
Road to Ruin, and the way to avoid
It," Hobe was q good gallant and
showed me the things first-rate. / saw
the Catafalco which was used at the fu
neral service of Lincoln; the clothes in
which Lincoln and Douglas canvassed
Illinois in their famous Senatorial con-
test; the great Curriculum or Mastodon
at st. Louis; and any
of lesser things, such as "wax-
figgers," paintings, war relics, &C.
Woods is becoming an institution in
Chicago, and is another of the places to
goto.
Among the people met were Gay
Streeter, Thode Streeter and George In
man. Gay, / should judge by the looks
of his store is selling kerosene lamps
and things; Thode has just got out of
the army; Geo. is in the insurance bu-
siness, believe he told me.
went into the Chicago Times office,
not that had any Partially to chat pa
per, burt because a friend-Kellogg, of
the n. II. Gazette, had business there,
and 1, being big, burly, muscular
Christian of three hundred pounds in
hot weather, went to protect him from
the assaults of the copperheads, only l
didn't. Well went down into the
press and mailing room and saw how
things were done. The chief mailing
clerk said he had boys who could fold a
thousand papers an hour and do it well.
He had q machine which would fold as
fast as you could count, and do it well,
also. 1t was about six o'clock in the
evening when called, and since TIVE
O'Clock in the afternoon the clerk said
he and his three or four boys had got
with about eighteen bundles.
We would think that was pretty big
work in the GAZETTE office, wouldn't
We? -
What admirable weather this is for
street cars! Beop4e generally seem dis
posed to pay five cents to ride in prefer
ence to walking for nothing. 1 don't
ride much, though. Do you. want to
know the reason why? I am afraid if
I accustom nryselft to the luxury ! shall
be building horse railways in Cedar
Falls, and thus disposing of all my in
come, and perhaps involving the GA
zETTE in financial distress.
Milwaukee, the beautiful city where
1 now am, is chiefly noted for its bricks
and good lager beer. Two things, l
suppose you are saying, which go very
well and very naturally together.
Milwaukee has now population of
about sixty-iive thousand, and is grow
ing and Improving but slowly. Chica-
go-ambitious, grasping, ayaricious Chi
cago-has paralyzed her and robbed her
of fally one hall, of her legitimate trade.
The new line of railroad to the Lake
Superior regions is having a very bad
effect upon Milwaukee, giving Chicago
a large trade which has heretofore came