Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-07-30
Correspondence st. Paul Pioneer.]
CHICAGO.
It's Beer, Groc cries, Theaters, Water
Works, Taverns, Preaching Kinks,
&C.. &c.

NHlCAGO, oui1 1T iOV0.
/ like Chicago. 1t resembles st. Paul
a good deal. That is why like it. Chi
cago is a large city. | have noticed there
are always many people in large city.
A city don't do well without them.
Some of your readers NAV not have
been to Chicago. Shall l tell them
about it
Well, there is much lager beer in Chi
cago, and many Germans to drink it.
But there are not Germans enough TO
drink all the beer before it would sour,
and SO the Americans help them. l
help some.
There are many groceries here, where
they sell tea, Goldfish, whisky, flour, mo-
lasses, saleratus and such things, and
other groceries where they sell cloth. wo-
mems clothes and fancy feminine fixins
generally. Field, Letter & Co. have of
the latter. 1t is in cube form-a block
long, a block high, and a block thick.
1t is bigger than a barn, and tall as a
light There are more than forty
clerks in it, some of the male persuasion,
and some of the female sex, and every
one of them is as slick as a spit.curl on
the side OF q school marm's face. Sile"
Wright is one of the institutions of this
dry goods grocery. He sells goods to
groceries very much; he has a handy
way of doing it, and many women in
the northwest of excellent character and
good education, and cultivated taste,
won't wear a gown or cloak unless it was
bought of 90 SiIe" Wright. Mrs. Liver
more won't do it. 1t may be said of him
as it was said of the great Sias, whose
memory we all revere, that he is
fright without the w"
But let me not meander. pass.
There are shows theatres, where
girls without very much clothes on, will
whirl around till fellow is dizzy look
ing at them; and then stand on ono leg
like hen. Then all TIE fellows clap
their hands, and tho girl she does the
same thing again. 1t is fun, but don
think would like to marry one of them
girls what jumps about as handy as flea,
would you, Mr.. Editor? don't think
they would be real careful mothers in
law, do you!
Miss Olive Logan insinuates, you
know, that well-that they, that is
some of them, might be mothers out of
law, but this may be because she couldn't
get used to stand on one toe as long as
they do. Jealousy prompts cruel words
sometimes. Then there is good show
w oods Museum-where there are
birds, monkeys, wax-works. and the
moral drama. There is to be seen the
dead skeleton of big snake that amt
alive now. This snake is whopper, or
was when he was on earth. 1t takes two
to look him all over, one to begin at each
end and look till they meet. He is as
long as q board fence. a crow bar
would be just fair sized tooth.pick for
him, and he could put you in his ear and
not feel it. l am glad he is dead.
more Private to the Editor-Do
snakes have ears? If not. erase part of
the above. l am telling the truth now,
playing for little Ratchet, just like G.
Washington used to have when he was a
boy.
There are lots of ships here, and horse
cars, but the horses don't ride on them
though, aud the water works. l must
tell you about the water works. They
are big thing. Much water is used in
Chicago. 1t is needed to make whisky
punches. &c. Fastidious people some
times wash in it. Chicago has first class
water now, and plenty of it. She has
built tunnel two miles long, and tapped
Lake Michigan that distance from the
shore. The water runs down to the
home station, and is then lifted up high
by steam engines and distributed over
the city. The hosting of it up is good
deal like work. There are three steam
engines of 100000 horse power each
used in pumping up the water, and they
are now preparing to put in a new large
one. like to see those engines work.
Anybody would. Clean, polished, shin
ing monsters, they seem to take con-
scious pride in their performance, and the
tireless movement of their mighty arms
seems almost as resistless as the will of
0Ou. Dut Ancy SOsS sSil PS; luOoO PiiOo vi
polished machinery and throbbing life
do, and with that regard for economy
which has always characterized me,
think have discovered plan by which
this work can be done at a nearly nomi-
nal expense. 1 only wonder that Chica-
90 with her accredited git" and "gnmp-
tion," has pot adopted my plan before.
have already sent my notice of claim
to the Patent Office, and as you, Mr..
Editor, are a Fisherman, I will explain
privately to you. My plan is this. At
the shore end of the tunnel, build large
tank or reservoir, put the first class
whales in it, and let them spout the yater
up. Simple, isn't It'll and feasible, too,
aud cheap. You see the whales would
furnish their own clothes and lodging,
and all the oil they would need for lights
to work nights by, and the city would
really be out nothing but their board.
Whales have always been in the water
eleyating business, SO this would be right
in their line: They would work and
think it was fun-just as a boy some
times but not most always does-and
their is no good reason why their sport