Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1864-1869, 1869-07-31
Number 8.
Kansas City aud the Celebra-
ton,

The editor Of the Chicago Raii,cdy Rspieo
who was present at the Bridge Celebration,
speaks thus pleasantly Of the event, and tho
city:
The reporters have expended somewhat
OF good-natural satire on the arrangements
for the celebration, which were almost COM
pletely set at naught by the unexpected
nagnltade Of the turn out. Ii. however,
the great procession was swallowed up in
the greater throng-eveu its cumbrous,
many teamed vehicles, bearing in maniaturo
the bridge In every stage of progress from
plle-drlvlng 10 river-spanning being almost
unnOticed If the barbecue OF fsuveral grown
beeves was scarcely sop thrown TO the
whale Unpopular appetite; If at the hotels
there was no room to sit, even ut the we'll
lasen but inadequate tables; II the speeches
utterly failed to hold the vast throng which
no human voice could reach; if, in one word
the occasion was too great for the place, all
this but goes to show all the more emphati-
cally the transcendant importance Of the
event.
And yet Kansas City isno insignificant
place, and represents no second rate lnteres-
Is Of enterprise and commerce Its natural
disabilities Of site though the opposite Of
those of Chicago, are scarcely inferior; for
solid hills have to DO cut away, instead of
level flats to be filled up, and every step in
municipal improvements history of large
obstacles overcome But what an abound
ing, continuous and solid growth. For
miles its narrow thorouglaros, which be-
gan, some of them, by following the undu-
/ lations of the bills, are lined on either side
with solid, towering structures OF srick and
stone, OF metropolitan aspect; while tho
scores of surrounding eminences ARE made
picturesque by tho substantial and costly
residences OF her merchant princes and the
humber homes of her working people. For
here every body is ut work, aud tirer spe-
cimcn of II busy, thrifty citizenship it would
be hard to match outside ofa picked thirty
thousand of Chicago population. Many suuc-
lures now building, NOTABLY two Tor nNtio-
nal banking institutions, are equal in
architecture to the latest Chicago fronts. If
every other buildingi is either u hotel or a
boarding house, tn 80, constantly hlled but
show how genuine are the lite and growth
of the city, But one has to 90 nearly milo
| from present cuisines to find the grand
hotel, ,-Broadway, at which on the evening
of tho "opcning day. occurred the most
brilliant event of the occusou--thc Bridge
Banquet, ut which metropolitan bill Of
of fare served to thousand invited guests
from Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, nnd
Nebraska, was supplemented with sterling
and inspiring speeches, by United States
Senators and congressman, State Cover
nors, City Mavors, and leading members Of
the press and learned professions,
Aud what has carried this great hotel TO
remote suburb, with the foundations of
the "graud opera house laid on the block
opposite! The answer is found in the loca-
tion here of the Union Depot, in which,
with n sagacity superior to that fmost now
cities with future, the homogeneous of
the half score Of railways ceutering here
have decided TO bring their termini toget-
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