, 1870-04-03
At New York--The Spanish
Innovation.
An1usenents.
Reviow OF tho Week.
CHICAGO, April 4

utLd JOG Oh 0e&k dOQh8 never t6aultad IN 4
more complete ruuddie OF that little gomin
than that in which I ind myself after trying to
comprehend the inticaciea of this Court
House business. think understand tho
Kealnsy side Of the mudd1e. The city lost :
Supervisor, and the Supervisor got Cicero
swa1np lot xnd c1s4En fur; ard Is now Sit
ting under his own vine and t5g tres, 1ost in
contemplation Of them, bu! saved from the
appalling thought that ho might At any mo
nant be summoned to the brink Of thn othar
world with III his sins upon his head It ian't
pleasant to be always sitting with the constant
idea that bes.eon you and Judgment DsJ
there Is only buckle, and that buckles ara IN
certain. What Il Kea1ney cannot auperv,se
any longer Ha can Il least enjoy psaoe OF
mind. In his 1etizacy hs can mediate, with
no further danger from intruding swamp lots
or the relquir OF dead felines. He can pre-
pare himself for peaceful ola age, qaiet,
safe paa.sge oyeE The sty5, and anng havan
in celestial Board Of Supervisors where tho
tempting furtiezs and Teal eatate men will
tesnpt him no more, and whare the roofs don't
buckle.
But The rest Of tho buaincss muddlea me. I
have read al the raports and Investigations,
cations, md AfadAEits Of Tom, Dick, aud
Harry, and two or three othctB, and an only
certain On theee pofnta: Tint some one who
has been an architect for ninety-four yaila,
man and boy, will stake biz reputation that The
floor Of the Normal School at Englenood+ that
suburban mud hole which ktkrneJ has forever
immostalized, will not sustkin LID pounds Of
humanity to the square foot, ~ tho roof ia
placed only pitch OF four feet, because the
tTusses we're sp1iced in the centre; that tha
committee Of nine arc certain it would have
been Ill right il Crane had hid the const1uc-
~ =. 4ha haStiD~ prA
tho. a1a T 4horass % ehsnsea % e' e eo1: and and
1nedMed with the nues, when
there was not the aIghtest necessity for ton
sion rods that tho committee Of twelve know
nothing about e10o, 900 worth Of pri.iea on the
upper hoor Of the Couzt House aE Engiewood,
Htuceo coznices On the east wing; that Supef-
visor Sanders was a1waya opposed to haying
his name gilded Oh the Normal School in the
Court House square or on the galvanized coils,
which would have been al right il Crane had
done them and Eea9ney had let the t,ues alone;
that the Education Committee coincided With
tie Building Committee, ngon recommends.
Wheclock should pay for tho Normal
stucco-col aue- galvanized- Englewood-C
House, il be didn't prove that the auoa
were both inside and outaide the walls; that
the report that another catskin fur hAd been
discovered in the possession Of the bo!-ringer
on tho Court House at Cicero, which keasnsy
il building upon Van Osde1's plans, is sub
tetfuge OF the enemy; that Supervisor PAIL
man ia in dangerous condition. owing to his
anxiety to find out whether remark hcafuey
not; that ii TWohig really told Loeberg that
Winchell informed Sanders that Wheelock had
said that tic sub-basemcnt contract depended
upon the excavation Of night soil nnder tho
E1detl names Of tho committee Of nine, then
The whole thing. falls through, and Waite is
n1x -.,}r f,Srf III
and that somebody Led when he said that he
WAS going to Use the west wing as an air duct
Nov, a. far ~ this, 1 think the thisty-four
Investigations which are going on are c1oar
enough 10 any one, but beyond this all is Il
muddlc to me. l an informed by > patient
man, who has no fear OF Jacksonville before
him, and who has Advanced little further
than have in studying this thing, that therc
III An awful exposure of fzand ahesd:;
shouldn't wonder, and this reminds me- to
say that il. ~ chip hid como in, and were
Rmna-er Of Chicago, would suumArily settle
tnla thing, and unraysl this snarl, sornevhat
after the following manner: Having collected
together the Donfu oi Supervisors and the gal
yanized eoils, and tho Investigating commits
teea, and the catekin fu1s, and eome of the
moet turbulent atchitects, and the gilded
nanlcs, nnt1 the su1-baserucnt contractors, and
Waite, and the excavations Of night soil, and
tic inhabitants OF tho Normal School. ~ho-
ever they arc, and Tho GSuTop of all the atlantis,
and the Joint committees, and Sanders, and
the Htueco cornicea, and Put them al
in tho Court House, I would then let
a1se Rh e .sss %ssS e e e. .1 II isp[.v5 aa eeF q
their past lives; plead with them tea.fulls and
tende1ly, bring them to = realization Of tho
fact that thty were nbout to bear the trumpet
Of Gabriel, and then, having administered ex-
treme JUNCTION, wou3a pull the buckles md Let
tho Court House down upon them, having drBt
taken 1rothcr Moody out. Thea I would build
new Court House which should not look like
seedy old black vagrant, arm in arm with two
white crpples; and would station regiment
of soldiers about tho building with orders to
properly, the arrt man who epokc Of having
his name gilded, and tho fiss. nan Who was
found with a cent in his pocket before hss work
was dune and would furthermore use the
derricka for the hanging Of the Investigating
committees.
pah: We talk about Kearnsy1 Poor Kearney
deservcs canonizatiou in comparison with tho
revelations Of rascality brought out every
morning. kearney 10 saint among ainneIs,
and his catskiu fur has all the purity Of the
robes Of The blessed, compared With the gar
i know Ills has nothing to do with The
Creation" / did not cay It had but, never
thclces, an wiling to take Oh my hat To the
Anateurr this time, and SAY "Bravo!" Even
to my it louder, thus: BRAVO!
would liked to have taken that 1itun German
DitclsoG to my heart Of hearts, Friday oven
ing, and ordered Hocheimct for ak, for his
magnificent eingln. Of Crct. And. u it hAl
,,.rrn nroper. slso to have taken Mrs. Fo1 4nd
W.s. Falsen, and ordered angelica By the
case, and rnAearoons by the S71sst!. Ina i
would like to bare arisen in the midst Of the
vast congregation and proclaimed, in , loud
yn,.c, "Foltz, you arc ! trump.
Hefote cnslused even Goodwi1lie should
hayc r., talk /. him As Dutch uucles arc re-
ported to talk. an, ehould Say to him, my
iesr Tom. you don't get srsllo~ tho crust You
don't comprehend the real 1utAn.,,e ana s's-
nihcauce Of orato1lo music It il so11et Jus
distinct by itself, iou have got to tea1 those
willie had dong a. much for you ~ Divine
Providence has, you would be simply superb.
Wake up and study some. You don't know it
ali yet. A man with Your hne voice hss no
business to be drifting along without ever using
his oars. When you roll in the foaming billows
you want to roQ and splash, not aoat like los.
You dnn't ~ant to sing about the huge levia-
than a. you would sing about tadpo'e. When
you tell Us about the heavy beasts tteadinG the
cath ecu lnusnt lot the b4seoon do N the
heavy treadlng. Do Ill this and then you cAn
come to the symposium With the rest
In the meantime. bravo! amateurs. {ou
hcat tho Mexsiah importAtiona al out Of sight,
and. lnzvo! BalatkA! In the Joy Of the pres
ent, We will forget the sos1ows Of the past,
symphonic, philharmonic znd otherwise. We
viii drcwn tho past In theae aoxsag naugs OF
beer, and picture prospective pleasures over
nnl you eay yuu didn't go 70 -tThs C1ea-
tion7" knew you wouldn't Bat it servps
You just right. The only alienation I can see
you lost. I suppoee you Thought our pixin
home people couldn't do auythipg.
confess to you that have no patience
with thoee people who will not accept anything
unlces it has been certified TO by New York
criticism. wouldn't EiEe two cents for New
| Let me give you come samples Of New 1ork
| criticism have gathered recently from New
| York papers Speaking Of Booths " Mac
beth" tbs New Yotl H7ud sass: The rol@
| OF Macbeth demands qnAhhes which tbe
| melancholy Dane never poascss>dt and there
| 4 tehol&r, gentleman. and philosophical stn'
dent is very different from murderer, rufhAn
l md brutal nsurrcr. Macbeth was the Bill
Sykee Of his day" THERE'S c!idcism for you
aelie.ts litsle Herses resembles IR. IT.
tbs eoaree-fxoed, hezvJ-eysd, large,
1aouthed, crscked..voieed, br.zen LIMA!
They Are about ~ Ike each othe1 - moe:
rose md cabbage Ihe Ssw ~ ao.k *. h2rts xrs
Iolaprcp vas The poorest rok II the - Schoo
for sandal" When, pay, did Nrs ta!aproE
gct into that school? The Now York Herald
ihe other day, eool,5, dsssanted On the nes: g,
succeed. What would poor old Dean Haaaat
say to that? The T,nxs says Booth eAn onl!
PLY sir GUS 0rarraeh- The HruM sayn ht
cannot p1ay It Al When the Sev Workers ge'
ner opera then look out for high At e1ss1
other dsy, by giving them "1ha Marriage .
Figaro, wheraupon, tho next morning, th!
Herald aaid that '.Thc Marriage OF FSg1zp
was Ike ~ series Of eoaAtaas se1y nnsatiaiAe X
NV @ b. Tho World thought it Was perfeetl
idle 10 attempt to revire Mozart after th
much better things ef Verdi and nafe