, 1870-07-17
intelligent man cro1 opposed their con-
Mructiou.
lMM0ATALITYH sTOEE.

lMMoRTAL1TYM N STONE.
In the early days Of Chicago the few
streets then in use in the original town
were named alter their natural position;
thus we Ind North, South, and West Water
streets, We laid of one wide space for
grand central market, and called it Market
street, then We had Lake street Then
crept into the street nomenclature the
cnn,nemoration of individuals: Dearborn,
LsSalle, Clark, Wella, Franklin, and Ran-
.lolph- Then it WEB concluded to name the
streets running east and west, On the South
Side, aftor the Presidenta- Washington
street Was the first, but in the meantime,
street called Jefferson hAd been opened
OF the Vest Side, and another near it
called Clinton, after the Vice President.
So we had to skip Jefferson, and took up
with Madison, Monroe, Adams (aud than
Quincy, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison,
aud Taylor. Here The growth OF the city in
that direction ~as too rapid for the success
sion Of Presidents, and other names had
to he adopted, which, sinca then, have ali
given way to the moro sensible plan Of
nums'ers. On the North Side We started
out with the names OF tho Northwestern
States, and followed with the MINES OF the
lakes, md, when these were exhausted, took
up names indisc1iminately. On the West
Side, after Canal, Clinton, and Jefferson,
ca,ne Desp1aines (after tho riyer), then
Halsted, and then We adopted the names OF
several of the counties Of this State,
Greene, Peoria, Sanganon, and Morgan;
thence west crorybody named the streeta
as he pleased. Every owner Of teu-acre
lot laid it off into blocks, divided by
streets, int lie naming of which every dis
tinguished person, male aud female, OF
ancient and modern time, has been per-
l>etuated. OF the etM miles of streets in
this city, 100 are named after individuals;
many Of them ly the first name only, aa
Ann, Adelaide, Elizabeth, William, Henry,
and George.
When the tunnel under tho river WIS
finished, the board of Public Works then
in office had stone inserted in the 1esti-
t'u1e, on which their names were carved.
AS the tunnel had bean commenced under
previous board, the friends Of tho latter
claimed an equal right to Immortality, so
now the two hoards have their names stuck
! in the wall, bat upon separate stones. The
new Court House il adorned with legend
that will serve posterity as an official direc-
tory for 1s70.
We have Board Of Police md Fire Com
missioncrR, and We have very large and
well assorted fire apparatus. The first duty
Of Commissioner has been, after taking
lis oath, to have a hose cart, or engine,
na1ned after him; even the eupernumerazy
members of the board hive not omitted
this duty. But when these officials we're
exhausted, then the police force was ap-
piled to for names, and evau the lager
breweries are coulmemorated upon the hose
carts of the city.
Tho Com1uon Council room is adorned
with the portraits of all the gentlemen who
have held the Office OF Mayor.
But the stranger to this system Of popu-
lar worship, visiting Chicago, is more par
ticnlarly struck with the vast number OF
persons who have, ont of their private
funds, established schools, and provided
for the cost of their maintenance. Wher-
ever he goes he finds school house for
the free education Of youth Of both soxcs,
and each school building is distinguished
from tllo Others by having cut deep in
stone. md inserted couspicuous1y in the
front wall, the name of the ibera1-mius1etl
and noble pAilauthropist WHO, out of his
| privnto funds, has built tho ei1;fce aud Ca
| dowed the institution. It, however, takes
hut short time to correct this error. and
to explain to the astonished stranger that
this nomenclature for the public schools il
nothing more than a kind of cheap glory,
l,y which the men who voted to have the
names Of others put On school buildings,
FIRE engines acavenger carts, and street
slrinklers, expect 10 have the same
compliment paid to themselve:
nc1t year. The uanes on tht
school buildings of Chicago do not NEAR
shat any person bearing that name eithe
founded the school or endowed it; it nero
iy 1ucans that the nume was cut OH it IL
compliment 10 the worthy citizen by othe
wnsthy citizens, who, in time, expected t
ta.e their names as conspicuously pre-
sented to the public eys. These school
were originally numbered, but this did no
zatisfr the craving for public worship: s.
one day it was resolved to put number
corresponding to those Of the schools i,
:,no Lat, md the names of rs many "fel
:uw-citizeuH in another hat, aud that
.lr4wing from each hst simultan eously, tn
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