The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-12-01
mo prosperity Of the City Of Chicago
and the Pacific Railr Dad.

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inc prosperity Of the City of Chicago
and the Pacific Railr Dad.
The city Of Chicago may take the palm for
being, next to New York, the most prosperous,
go-ahead city on the Continent. It now con-
tains population Of over quarter Of mill
lion and 10 increasing at the rate of twenty-fiys
per cent every couple Of years. The popula-
ton is now sixty times larger than it was
thirty-one years ago. The aggregate wealth
Of the city exceeds two hundred and thirtv-two
millions, or two hundred and nfty times a.
large as 1t was twenty eight years ago. In
fact, everything in Chicago has increased enor.
mously within the last quarter Of century,
especially divorce cases. She has whole
blocks Of magnificent dry goods palaces, ware;
houses, bank and insurance buildings, Is we'll
supplied with handsome church edifces, private
residences, opera houses. theatres, hotels, rail-
way stations, printing houses, and prints some
rather enterprising newspapers. She has .
community Of merchant princes who are Inn
bued with the true Western adventurous spirit,
dashed with Eastern energy, endurance and
ingenuity; she has divines as eloquent az you
will find almost anywhere, and lawyers who
are pronounced fair at common law and famous
In causes connected with the marital relations
of frail humanity. Taken altogether, Chicago
is wonderful city already, but In few years
will become still more wonderful, populous and
prosperous-the Titan Of Western metropolisss.
Already are the eyes of her public-spirited
citizens looking to the vast advantages
to accrue from making Chicago sort Of
central or distributing point for the Pacific
Railroad taking, as 1t were time by the fore
lock, and stepping in by the side of New York
to urge to a triumphant completion the great
trans-continental undertaking. Meetings have
been held and resolutions adopted showing the
natural advantages of Chicago as point for
direct trade with Eastern Asia, and for
the concentration of Oriental goods--teas,
silks, satins, the ''spices of the Orient" and
the untold wealth that must cross the Conti-
nent, upon the completion of the railway, en-
route to the markets of the Old World. By this
means, and by enlarging the facilities for rail-
way communications between the two cities,
Chicago will become veritable suburb of New
York and help swell the magnitude and splen-
dor Of the great Commercial Emporium in COM
mon with her own. Arrangements are also
being made in Chicago to celebrate the OPEN
ing of the Pacific road-next Fourth of July,
perhaps-with degree Of liberality and mag
niacence unparalleled on the Continent. In
short, Chicago seems actually to be step in
advance Of New York in appreciation of the
commercial benefits that will aow from the
| construction Of the road. And our merchants
and citizens generally, as well as our public
authorities, should be waking mp to the impor-
lance of celebrating the consummation of the
iron bound union between these two great
| cities-New York on the east and San Fran
| cisco on the west-in . manner commensurate
with the Importance Of the event and the
honor Of the city. II they do not take caro-
Chicago will be ahead of New York in the
matter of inaugurating tho great occasion.
They are an intrepid class Of people, those
| Chicagoans.