The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-03-04
CHICAGO CORREsPONDENCE.

Pulpit versus w oman suffrage-La
sale Street TunneI-Business-
SSIPf.Srstion fSSPH Gn US OF 1he Fffseent6 e G;
Amendment-Crime Justices
| Judge McAllister.
CHICAGO, feb. 81, 1S7O-After long ses-
son of moderate weather, it grew cold Friday
night; ON Saturday we had driving northeast
snow storm, and for the last forty-eight hours
it has been very cold, the Thermometer mark
ing six degrees below zero tLis morning, the
coolest Of the season. But it now is too late
1 in the season to have an old-fashioned winter,
tho we may have, instead, "a cold and backward
spring. 1t has been the mildest winter thus
far known to the Oldest inhabitsnt. --l-
THE LEG DRAMA.
| There has been some pretty sharp sparring
| betweeH the editor of the Times aud Peri
! creme Pickle, the musical and dramatic critic
\ Of the Tribune, on one side, and Miss Lydia
| Thompson, manager of q burlesquo ballet
troupe of artificial blondes, performing at the
Opera House. on the other, Story and Peri
! creme assailing through the columns of the
/ Times and the Tribune, and Lydia replying
/ from the foot-lights. At McVicker's, too, the
] leg business has been on the boards till the
public are heartily tired oft. The intelligence
of this community does not run altogether to
! legs, and if the managers of McVicker's and
the Opera House do not comprehend this fact
4 they might as well give leg bail and git -
Legs, as perpetual show, are about played
out 81 i-s-
THE PULPIT vs. WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
Rev. DR.. Hatfield, last week, preached
denunciatory sermon against woman
suffrage and its advocates. To say
that he misrepresented the friends of
this measure, and libeled its advocates, Is
1 to state the case very mildly. Coming from
| party politician in heated political canvass,
1 it would not be strange. But from minister
of the Gospel, it seems less like preaching
| onod fidinCa in the RDir1t Of r1aaca earth
and good will to men, than slanderous
phiilippic Of cursing IN the name of the Lord.
strong argument against woman suffrage
/ is legitimate and unobjectiOnable. But fair
! play and truthful statements are courtesies
which even a minister should not dlsdaln.
| Dr. Hatfield's sermon has called out two
sharp replies in the Tribune. His reviewers
show HIM little reverence, and one of them
charaeterizes his statements as ''gross and
libellOus perversions Of facts"
THE LA sALLE STREET TUNNEL
is progressing finely. Eighty feet of the
north section Of the river is already walled
up and arched over, and by the 1st of April the
whole north part of the river will be COM
pleted SO that the Golfer dam can
be taken up on that side and one constructed
on the south side. About thirty teams and
one hundred and twenty-five hands are con-
stantly employed on the work. The part
already excayated is boarded over, with can
yass covering the ends, and huge stoves within
keep the temperature above the freezing
point, so that the mason work proceeds I'D
interrupted by frost. The contract requires
the completion of the whole work by July,
1871, but it will probably be finished by next
January.
The wholesale business houses are getting
in their stocks, sending out their agents and
circulars, and getting ready to make their an
nouneements preparatory to opening offspring
Srade. All sorts of dodges are resorted to,
to induce merchants to part with their money
for extemporaneous advertising sheets and
circulars. Papers and advertising circulars
are printed to be given away on the rail cars,
and at the hotels, or to be sent to dealers
throughout the West. And what is remark
able about them, is, that there are never less
than ten thousand Of each kind to be thus
distributed. Prudent and well-posted mer-
chants usually prefer to mail their own cir
culars, and to advertise IN papers having
bona fde subscribers. The proprietors of
one sheet, soliciting advertisements on base
of 80, 900 circulation, print just 5000 copies
TYPE OF CHICAGO.
The unexampled growth of Chicago is due,
not more to her position at the head of lake
navigation, and as the focus OF an unequalled
system of railways, than to the character of
her business men. For if it is men who con-
stitute State, it is also nleIl-and not natural
nor artificial advantsg sges-Who build up great
cities and transform the wilderness into fer
tile fields and gardens. To Chicago, as TO q
great center, have grayitated the active,
energetic, enterprlslng men from all parts OF
the Union, with ideas enlarged by the bound
less field open before them, the warm blood
and growing enthusiasm of youth tempered
but not chined-by the prudence and ex-
perience of msturer years. There is here,
In many OF our leading business firms, that
desirable union of ripe manhood and vigorous
youth whicn combines sagscIty in deyising,
and boldneSs in successfully executing, those
large business plans which distinguish Chi
cago above all Western cities. 1t is to the
young men Of this generation-of which
Chicago furnishes the chief type-to whom
the Great West is indebted for the more per-
feet fultillment. than even Bishop Burkley |
himself ever conceived of his prophecy, |
t'WestWard the Star of Empire takes its way"
In Eastern cities, business houses reach ma
turity as youth do their majority, after a
score OF years. But here, business houses
are appreciated, not so much for their age as
for what they are. and what they can do. If
they understand the wants of the Western !
trade, ano have the ability, foresight and
skill to supply the demand, at reasonable |
rates, and to make these facts widely known, |
their success Is assured. New houses, pos
sessing these qualifications, are yearly |
springing up here, and at once taking front !
rank among our first business houses, IN the |
character and extent of their trade. / was
IOrClDIN IGmlQQGQ Ell6 IdCI, l6I6lls III
meeting an old Milwaukee acquaintance, IN
the recently established firm Of
LYMAN, PAGE co.,
manufacturers of, and wholesale dealers in !
boots and shoes, who have recently removed
to their splendid new store-6ve stories high
and 165 feet deep-at 81 Wabash Avenue. !
Their third business year shows trade of
5000 600 extending all over the Northwest to
the Pacific Slope. Mr.. Seymour Lyman, the
senior partner, resides at Boston, super
intending their large mandatory, and i'm
proving every opportunity to purchase Eas-
tern goods advantageously for the Chicago
house. Mr.. Thomas Page, who came into the
firm last July, had, for some eight years, con-
ducted the same business successfully In
Milwaukee, ranking among the most sub
stantlRl business. men Of that city. His ex-
perience and business relations with the
trade of the Northwest, make him most
valuable accession to the firm. The younger
members of the firm, Mr.. A. @. Aldrich, for
fourteen years, and Mr.. W. @. Lincoln for sew
en- years past, engaged here as clerks, ,salesmen
and proprietors, are wide awake, active, res
olute young men, thoroughly acquainted with
the business and business men of the West,
and representing the clasS Of men who have
made Chicago the Head Centre of trade and
enterprise for the whole Northwest. With
abundant means, an ample stock adapted to
the wants Of the trade, thorough business
habits, strict integrity and attention to bust
ness, Anu IdTO skl4A III HI I4ACsb ClC-
ments of success mutually profitable to them
selves and their customers, the large trade
they have built up in two or three years Is a
proof Of fair dealing in the past, and pledge
of increasing business in the future.
FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT CELEBRATION.
The colored citizens of Chicago have made
arrangements to celebrate the adoption of
the Fifteenth Amendment, guaranteeing
universal suffrage to all male citizens over
twenty-one years old, irrespective OF race or
color, as soon as the official proclamation is
made that the amendment is part Of the
organic law. little aristocratic exclusive
ness cropped out at the preliminary meeting,
Mr.. Freeman belieing his name by propos-
ing to exclude white citizens from partici-
pating in the speech making. But his motion
was not adopted. Mr.. Freeman belongs to
the irreconcilables.
CRIME.
Tke city has been unusually infested by
| thieves, burglars and robbers, for some time
past, and housebreaking has been Of daily
I and nightly occurrence. At one time they
depradate chiefly in one division, but when
driven from that, they bstake themselves to
another. A few weeks ago their rendezvous
;r h. North nivlziOr1- then thew mada q |