Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-06-02
LETTER FROM CHICAGO.
The Nicholson PaVement-A new
DepOt-CrOwdsi I'm the Schools Crops
The Political Pulse.
Special Correspondence of the Cleveland LEADEs.
CHICAGO, May 2sth, 1866.
NICHOLSON.

lar ana near.
Clark and Lake streets our chic
thoroughfares, have been ten years paved
and ten years long have happy teamster'
and rejoicing coachmen given thanks
Now, Wabash avenue, the fashionable
drive South Water street. the heavy gro
GERS quarter; West Randolph and West
Madison, the street-srteries Of the great
residence-third of the town; and several
shorter streets beside, are to be equally
favored. And more noteworthy than the
Improvement in any Of these, is the fill
ing, grading and paving of Wells street.
For Wells street, although lying in the
very heart of the city, and made respect
able at its lower end by two or three busi-
ness blocks, has been for the most part
abandoned 10 Jews and Germans, courte-
zans and rowdies, thieveries and grogger-
les of the lowest possible grade. The
shanties along its low and sickly borders
have waited the wand of some true magi-
clan 10 take them of, and the wand has
waited for NICHOLSON. NICHOLSON has
come, and the shanties and sinners must
so. The relief will be most welcome.
THE NEW DEPOT
Now building for the Michigan South
ern and Rock Island Railway Companies,
will stand so near Wells street, that its
pavement will draw fully half the travel
from Clark, and along any frequented
thoroughfare business blocks are sure to
go up. Twelve months hence it will not
bring blush to ones cheek to confess that
he lives or traffics on Wells.
This depot, by the way, is TO be grand
building, and no mistake. Strangers and
foreigners who have first seen Chicago, as
l did, on a memorable night not many
years ago, from the shanty which has pre-
vented station go long, will devoutly
give thanks at the assurance that that |
shanty is no more. Upon the very spot |
where it festered, the foundations of the |
ry building far sightlier than the old, now |
receives incomers three blocks above. |
The outline of the growing walls sug-
gests the survey of fort, or the plot of |
penitentiary enclosure, rather than the |
foundation of a building. When a roof |
is sprung above, and the arch towers up
under the roemy sky, we shall rejoice in |
a structure we'll rewarding long and |
weary waiting.
l do not forget that Cleveland has a /
depot growing rapidly to completion one
of which she may well be proud. l do |
not know that ours will be larger or finer, |
for have not the measurements at hand |
nor do l care that il should be- After
the unspeakable shame we have suffered |
so long, we shall but toe thankfully well |
come one even half so good as yours,
which is good enough for anybody. But |
if the brags l hear are to be verified, we
shall really get something worth coming
here to see.
PLENTY OF YOUNG IDEAS.
the 1numer0siIy OF cur population. You
may not be startled 70 hear that Of our
entire people, portion are youngerly-
incipient-not mature. The aggregate of
this class is more or less, perhaps; but /
more. The School Board say, |
DECIDEDLY more; decidedly
We have comfortable school rooms for |
twelve thousand. Into these rooms are |
crowded upwards of seventeen thousand |
while twelve thousand moro discover that |
the capacity of school rooms is fixed
and constant quantity, radically differing
from the capacity of street cars and omni- |
buses; and, unable TO go to school, amuse |
themselves as only city children, and l
may add Chicago city children, know
how.
The teachers struggle along in their
overcrowded rooms as best they may,
some of them having an hundred and
forty pupils each in constant attendance,
and one or two as many as az hundred
and siTty.
The Board of Inspectors, as our school
Board is called, has inspected and debated
and doubted and inquired and retrospect
ed and cogitated and reflected and hesita-
ted and so forth, for couple of years;
and now at length timidly asks the Com
mon Council for an hundred thousand
dollars to invest in new buildings in the
Interest of the seventeen thousand surplus
Young ideas. If the spectacled fathers
think the bank balance can spare so much
money, the Inspectors will build three
plain structures TO accommodate seven
hundred children each. Meanwhile the
increase of the teachable population will
amount to about two thousand or twenty
five hundred; and there will be Just sew
eHteen thousand surplus as before.
The City Fathers are hesitating, how
ever and may not vote the appropriation
at all. In which case it is to be hoped the
rashness of the petitioning Board will be
overlooked and an extra appropriation Of
an hundred and fifty thousand dollars for
police purposes prepared for.
TIE WEATHER AND CROPS.
April and May have been very dry,
mean have been destitute of the usual
showers; but the crops have not felt this
destitution SO much as was feared. We
have had some heavy showers within the
last twentv-four hours, and if similar IA
vors shall not prove unfrequent during
the next six weeks, the harvests Will be
Good. A severo frost or two some weeks
since occasioned the usual fright, and in
a few low-ground localities injured the
fruit But this mischief was not general,
and our cherries and other earlier fruits
are already far advanced and promise
abundant yield.
POLITICS.
The temper of Congress gives great sat-
isfaction: increasing satisfaction as the
session lengthens. Our people proved
during the administration Of their own
larce-hearted fellow-citizen that they
could not put their thinking out to be done
bv contract. No criticism could have
been franker, severer or msnlier than that
with which Mr.. Lincoln was constantly
favored by his own most steadfast person
al and political friends hereabout.
1t is no injustice to his successor, there
fore, if they sill think for themselves,
and frankly say what they think And
| if Mr.. johnson were but half as sagacious
as the good man whose name he desc
crates BY baptising it upon his own mis-
chievous schemes, he would listen better
and talk less. He thinks, or seems to
think, that his tongue must keep pace
with his prime minister's pen. Where
upon we profoundly commiserate the
delusion.
While Congress stands fast by the gos
Del of Liberty and the Constitution o.
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