Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-09
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is iruG Of Chicago would be OF another place,
depends on local considerations. Clearly and
surely this is proving an excellent investment
for Chicago taxpayers 1t is a beautiier and a
convenience.
| Lincoln park, on the north side is fast be-
coming the peer of Central park in New York
On one side sleep or dash the waters of Mchi-
gan, willis back from the shore and long dis
tanos on the lake the ground is Sttrachvely di-
] vided into walkS, drives, gardens, shrubbery
plots, groves, artificial hills and ponds. Nature
having left no eminences, the park commission
ers initiate the work she has done elsewhere in
this way. as far as the city purse permits. Time
with its growths will add much to the beauty Of
| Its appearance, though even in Its infancy it
| has some of the advantages and attributes
| of mature years-an exception to the human
rule.
But the visitor or reader wishes 10 know OF
| something other than the material side and
| phases Of Chicago. What are her moral, social
| and intellectual life and ways7 Our present
limits can only hint at them. They are not
quite up to the standard of the opportunities.
dollars, quite to the exclusion of the finer purer
| joys, and the graces Here is the strength Of
the Roman without the aesthetic culture Of the
Greek; enormous quantities of grain and pork,
and small art gallery, with few pictures, and
seemingly fewer appreciators. | visited the
Academy of Design, an institution supported
wholly by the hard-earned dollars of the artists
themselves-a worthy testimonial to Them
reflection on the millionaires and merchants.
AT the head Of the valuation of the city l found
gentleman who was former resident of Wor
cester-one Of those exotics who were brought
up (literally speaking) on the Spy; hs almost
"swears" by it still, true to his youthful memo.
ries. need not say that the writer was core
daily met
have found several such as he scattered in
important and influential positions from the
PenobScot to the Pacific, who remember with
gliStening, and sometimes moistening eye, the
"argus-eyed" Journal of the old county, in
some of whose places they call their heart-home
yot. The ancient country has sent ont many q
prominent western pioneer. Success to them In
this wide-extended land. l have disrsssed.
Cone back to the indexes that show the cur.
rents here. We WSRt in the morning, Sunday,
| 70 Rev. Mr. Chsney's ehRrch--ths church home
Of the Fecaleityant pastor, recently celebrated
for his ecclesiastical spsrTins OF (mors politely
but less truly controversy with Bishop White
house on some technical points so small and in
Significant that know little about them and
care less l was happily disappointed in the
man, Ah matter and manner. The nrst i'm
preston he makes, Is that he cannot be fright
Oned or Wheedled from position he deliberately
takes, as he has IN this controversy over tech
nical trihes. Though the differences be upon
matters important or unimportant, he takes his
place as man and not minder. There IS an
energy aud Independence Of faith, power,
grace and comprehension quite rare in
these latter days of "going with the crowd"
His people resemble him in his peculiar traits.
They are as united for him as he is firm in his
position. What the end will be we do not
prophesy; but already he has won victory in
behalf of liberty and lberaity. OF fluent,
graceful, polished and intense oratory, he in
fuses unwonted life and impressiVeness into his
sermons. His church is large, influential and
promising. This city and the country at large
parishes like him and his.
Chicago is placeof vast material forces for
its age and population. There Is great pro-
portion of driving wheels" among its business
men, carrying forward its commerce in cereals
and lumber, the branching railways and
steamer lines, and lake marine, floating to
every western port. 1t has many such, but
very few that impart any lustre or make the
place attractive beyond a mere curiosity to see
how many buildings have been built, and miles
of wooden pavement laid in the last two de-
cades. With her means and relation to the
great west, we ought and have a right to ex-
pect more of culture, Of art, of letters-less of
boorshness and boasting ! doubt if the civil
lied world can furnish another place where
thereis a 1.-THE of the self-laudation there is
| here. Everywhere and in countless ways one
sees and hears the most unblushing and as
| sured audacity as to the "bigness" of Chicago.
Western men tell a good story Of their taking
the census by copying the visitors names on no.
tel registers upon the census list We guess it is
not far from true. Whether so or not, they feel
| much chagrin because st. Louis shows a larger
census roll.
Local pride is always in place (if circum-
stances warranty, but local bombast and elbow"
is disgusting, ridiculous, and in the long run,
harmful Il generates great expectations in the
uniformed and eredulous, to be too often sue
ceeded by disappointment and curslng. We can
see no policy or gain In this excess. The facts
properly put are sufficient. Nature has given
her immense advantages merits-which
her citizens have but 10 copy, and The strides OF
the future will be giants pace compared to
the infant gait Of the past. Along with her
grain elevators let society elevators keep COM
pany-at least until Sunday is something more
than drunken, card-playing holiday In some
places of public resort. Some of her capitalists
ought to encourage and aid her libraries and art
galleries as well as slaughter houses and stock
yards, il they would found metropolis that Is
to make this immense prairie land one of the
gems that IS to form the crown of the republic
in the coming centuries. The task is easy if
the beginning be not too long deferred. Oppor-
tunities lost never return. DELTA.