Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1868-01-31
CMcAGo. Jan. oStl,, 1853.

Ed. EErrBL.c AS.-AiveIsi,y has not, am
happy to say, chilled the eulcr souls Of the
!. VI. g. A.. or mortified the intensity Of their
duty TO their fellow men, Their great hall
was burned bat it will DO coon rebuilt and
they can we'll afford to keep up y stiff upper
lip, III their con.bats with "the adversary,
AZ they cmlhemisc ifke gentleman in black
In fact they rather make a merit Of that con-
ha:ration. Had they been at all BUNDLED
they wonll never hav- tackled the young men
who occupy rools in lnIg. public blocks
Sinners OF WHOM, an chief" see ST. PAUL
On these iuckless parties, miserable enough
already they have made aa Implying raid
with plentiful smMnniii IA, Of Which the L. NJ
Z. A has ever been lib.ral--gnol advice and
IN the general scarcity Of news now prevailing
here, this suggests ~ me that this life in
rooms. "living in chambers" ~ an English
man would say, may be made the subjcc, for
y few beautiful remarks. There are in Chi
cAgo Some thirty OF forty large buildings,
block as they are generally termed, which
are tenan,ed almost entirely, At least in the
upper three stories. by young and middle
aged persons Of both sexes Who have NO es.
pecial social responsibilities o. ties, who have
: magnificent contempt Tor Mrs. Gruady's or
Mrs. Col. Foynts's opinions A. TO the propris-
~ Of anything they may choose to 10. These
Independent people hire their rooms furnished
or uat,,ruished, generally the former, and
live q restaurants Of which Chicago boasts -
great variety and. proportionstely - great .
number - any other city in the Onion. Econ.
omy ~ we'll ~ iadepsHdeace il served by
this system, Tor even when one pays bic rent
the cost 10 light and wL1a one hes cheek add
10 st all fertile Of e1pedieut evea that small
ouslsy - . saseadary sSasidssslioa, u BY no
means necessary evil. IN saeusnished ro,m,
near the centre Of the city may b obtainsd
for rom $40 70 80 per nsath, moro accerd.
ing to style and sGitsds than loeAli.y. and q
furnished apartment fos omewhers In the Vi.
Guilty of IS per week. Bosrl ranges from q
to SO per week according to the style Of res
taurant which one chooses 70 pstron:se--th'
latter il ones taste rius 10 ''qunil or toasts
sweet breads etc the formee II "posk snl
! beans" and .'cornci beef is euficient--cer.
tain blocks, the Grey no!ds" Tor example, la
. large over plus Of female population, o
the class who in the days Of Solomon, wen
Tor the foolish young men on the public street.
and they patronze for. their meals the Euro
pesn Hotel and two or three other similar es
Establishments on Dearborn and State STREETS
now and then the police make raids on thes
blocks spreading teffor among the inmate
for little while, but tire moral influence .
these injurious l. only short lived and in
few hours the samc careless joility prevail
. which existed before. Dohemians, that IL th
sons Of literary Bohemia, peculiarly e6ec
this mode u lie and may be ssid to be tn
!, salt without which would lose - saved Al
, though the jellssst Of all, they are by all odd
the most moral Their rule IL that every ma
engaging in their festivities is morally boun
70 10 what he pleascs, Without regard to any
body else. Hall for instance. does not con,
0 plain when . crowd breaks in uron hin
d away along in the hours A. NJ, takes his kc,
5 OF Folrh"n bad az It's contents arc, and i
amused b. shs,wns srr':s through his ran