Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-12-01

OS IEAGISA-IyE Rze0RTISG.-Tae Chicago
Pos, ,hus discusses the enterprise of the special
reporters and artists by whom the grea; FIRE was
SO wonderfully iepie,5i
The special correspondents bsve done " exec
lent well, " but it cannot be s4ii that truth in
variably sdouudei 81 the bottom Of the vel in
question. indeed a modern DXeusiiern uighJ
md IN c.utenqor-ne0us li-erature an excuse for
the exclamation, ' see, any son, with how little
accuracy the world j. reported. 80 Jenkius, Ike
Jobs war horse, has scented iLc battle from
siar, the thuUders Of the .Esurauce agents aud
the shouting, and "a lJ-stiuc bis literary hardy-
Eurjy With the sgouy stop, be has outioue him
sell, MlEchsusen, Anauiss, sni all that else,
baptized or iu6iel, .ied in history. sacred or
profsue. The Ne~ York correspondents have
displayed al artistic and circuustau;isi meuds-
city comueuda1le IA the highest degree, snd
which shines the more brightly by contrast with
the crudiuss Of the rursl press. II IL TO a New
York j5urusl that We oEg the picture Of = little
gir., with long, golden hair aI ablsze, curvet-
ing through t.ark stcct II Wssa New York
special Who teuaD,ed the lsmp posts 20 thick.y
With burglars aui inceudiaries inst 10 the smoke
sni confusion the inaivertsut traveller bumped
against corpse At every other step. A NeT
Yorker prOppei Mr. Barney Aaron and Dutch
Heinrich sgsIust = wall, and ru.n.es,ly moved
them down with musSetry. And 20 3 New York
journalist we are indebted for the rarely accom-
piisHtd fest Of shriyelius up = msr during his
passage through the burning air iroG. the ruof Of
a building TO the sieWsls. which he reached in
sr,r.ded STATE. Compared with this artistic
meudscity how pitiful aud coarse axe the achieve
ueuts OF The lrOquOis journalist who sm0thered
eight hundred men in 4sh!ugt0c street tunnel,
ami lett thirteen hundred prisoners TO suhlcate
IN the new BuieWeil. And yer, perfection Is
after sil imperfect To shrI el man Is success-
ful and commendsb!e, bur how much more ef-
fective would 1t have been had the letter-press
been accompanied by sn illustration, showing
tie gradus. resolving OF the man into thin air as
be passed each story. from Two hundred pounds
weight AZ the attic. 20 he size OF baby st the
net a5or. scd an inpslpability al the base
ment
Most noticeable, too. has been the smisbie ri
vary of the artists. who have endesvored 10 ex-
press with pencil and grsyer tie Iuaccurscy
which the correspondents have compsssed with
adje:Ive and exclamation point. frank Les
lies drsughtsmen, ike another sampson, tore
down the two wings OF the court house ere he
permitted it 10 burn. Harper's vas not 10 be
outioue, aud transported bodily -four mil and
a block Of wholesale stores from Lake street
bridge 10 Randolph street. Stimulated by sue
cess, this msn sosrsd from the achievements Of
Orlando Furioso or Hercules mAddened by an
illy-itting shirt, 20 those ol Joshua sud changed
the wind on the night Of the fire 60 70 wait
hot destruction into the west division, an error
for which he subsequently atooed BY uprootng
Union psrk and planting it on The north SIDE
Another artist, in the same paper, gives view
OF the conhigration as seen from the prairie,
which Iivsls Mr.. Wards Desert OF HoEsrth's
picture Of the passage OF the Red Sea, wherein
the sea alone renamed. tbe lsrseiites having
crossed it and the Egyptians having been drown
ed Still these pictares relate 10 the Chicsgo
FIRE, and the paper which contains them will sell
The times are hardly rIpe, as yet, for the - con-
hsgration corn plaster, the - ca!2mity cath-
srtic." or the q Chicsgo FIRE cgsyst, IN fame
color clou1ed with smoke