, 1870-06-05
PALACES ON stills.

That I'll caRo auoulu Der II 6ukue bsS1ee. / r
q city of shanties, Is neither fault nor +
misfortune, but simply necessity A col {
ony that ia induced, for any reason, whether !
choice OF compulsion, to settle upon new
Territory, provides itself first with habita-
tons, and these may be tents Of canvas OF
huts Of bark, according to the oonvenienoe
Of the moment. When leisure and pros-
po5ity come, the tent OF the hut grows into
house, and, though the house be only a
| shanty, it is 80 far, sn improvement upon
the original dwelling, and IS an evidence OF
growth and fozethought- In tho due pro
cress of time, when the COLONY has beedme
a permanent settlement and the settle
1oent u town or city, the shansy
il succeeded BY more stable and
uore stately buildings; art and aci-
euce are 1eso1ted to in more GLIB |
crate applications, and, unless the build
ar fosuets the new conditions re-
auired by the new circumstances, there
is neither fault nor misfortune in the
marks and signs Of q recent beginning
! Iaut if l,a ran not fa.tUrnW the atass OF n1s
beginning; If his camp, when it ahould be
Atown, is camp still; If the new house,
which ampler means and increased needs
demand, is only nothing more than an
enlarged ahanty; il be has no broader iaea
,, Of architecture to apply to stone and brick
than satisfied him and Was large enough
: when he built hut, then he is either to be
= | blamed OF pitied- And, certainly, he is
: subject Of comrniseration II his coneel-
! tion Of a1t and of science do not keep pace
) with his enlarged necessities and hia en-
- 1arped means; If his warehouses are still
:. tents, at tho mercy OF tho elenenta which
:, floods may wash away OF the winds blow
- down; If the palace, which he fondly
y !, thinks he is building, is, except IN some
=. ueret1icious o1namentation. no better thar
~ the Temporary sl1anty which, in the earliel
- days, sheltered him and his,
~ n And, with ali due Difference and becom
"a ing nodesty, what We here say, we think
-, applies to Chicago. We have nothing t
ro- I've ashamed Of in her shanties, for they ar
~ only the remains of her beginnings. W
,o+ ratbcr like to wander upstairs and dowr
:, stairs, to The burden Of the old nnrser
ho rhyme, through streets unfinished IN
m. streets not begun; looking, now up ln'
w the windows Of this mans basement, 10
al down into the windows Of that man
n attic, rejecting with some pzide a1
the sasasAaesaoa oio" ~" 1ss
in has cone a'tsaay,
of much she evidently means to d
7ad and that nowhere else in the world
- there city that picks herself up, rs itve1
- by the nape Of her own neck, and slovt
po. ths dir. under he. to give her new d,
nrea better foundation. 1t Is not tho unfnish
4 TO things in Chicago but tho finished TIN.
de- look upon with some shame and much
sub grct. It Is the shanaea IN mafele, :
scr- the shantles IN SLABS ana 1atn
itted We thlnk We snoala o'asn LUZ Nof - =
in- SIMPLY matter OF Taste ano coi'us'' =
En- architectural taste. let ns nope, WILL Ill
their long run, get toothoid among u.s. nos"i
I'd to standing We have made 50 1a'se 81, 81,
init But it is a matter OF safefy as well WI
itted wind from the pfn11e or mo lahe p'
us Of | up mans snanty nno ihnas II auatse'
after mile away, it generally leaves ths
,str;a himself, or gires him chance Of eaea
and though he may be left, Ike Dick Swivel
were without even IN umbrella for q consolaf'
,,,na- But it Is quite another thing VIXEN the 81
= the wind sisits too roughly the 1nsufhc
nathv building Of brick OF stone. It does mol
N po- be sure, 50 50 tar as NE other, IS It rum
since into its own cellar; oot the o~eae3S u
. now IN ars undetneatn h-eone *nese "s
, sny aid will avail them nothing ou1 fes1
shire, that sort Of nnanla mas seized u, "ne
;stian- born Of Ignorance OF DOM OF 1eesaess.
to finish Chicago Win paohe aao Pt'
: the buildings That are talse, not onlT te