The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-10-10
Sketch OF the Growth or the
Garden City.
ITS EARLY HISTORY.
The Mushroom Municipality That
Grew in q Swamp.
Commercial Importance and Wealth
Of the Burned City.

have sc0rched out is rapid In the rapidly or
Its almost extinction. But nfty hours ago and It's
citizens would have laughed At any dis
count on its greatness, and now, Heaven
help us their stout hearts are strung
not with the brave striving OF golden
emulation but with the agony OF self preservation.
TO men, very DID, II seems bat yesterday that
word came to the East OF new city struggling INTO
life among the marshes south OF Lake Michigan.
Go0d-numored
SNEKRING MET THE PROPHEsIEs,
people then called them dreams, which were sent
out OF making this swamp the future emporium OF
the great West. In 1850 there were nearly two
thousand short OF thirty thousand souls, and
men only msjudged the future OF the
republic In doubling the future OF Chicago. The
wide lhnds Of Wlnconsin and Minnesota were unde-
veloped the fat prartes OF Illinois were untitled and
the long, rich. rolling prairles OF giant Iowa
almost untouched ~ the plough. The great lumber
regions Of the West were loved OF the hunter alonc
the heavy thud OF the woodman's axe and the fall
ing crash OF the 0narchs OF the forest ut the bidding
by ardent SPECTATORS.
CHICAGO WAS GROWING,
but save the stories OF those interested in ts wei
fare ana watching its progress there was nothing
but the story Of Indian massacre far back In the
century which brought the word Chicago TO the
mind.
When the war OF 1912 broke out Chicago great
Chicago, consisted OF wooden fort called Dearborn,
erected In 1904 ITO supply the Indians wants and
control the Indian policy" just as the
forts In tho far Territories are today. Tho
indians. with all the ferocity OF their nature.
awakened BY the impassoned rhetoric OF the power.
ful leader Tecumseh were pitcd against the Amerl-
cans. There were few friendly Indians, and some
OF these were around
THE DEARBORN FORT,
which was then In possession OF sixty OF orr SOL
diers under captain Heald. Word was sent to him
by friendly Indian from General Hall, then IN
command OF the North western Army. to evacuate
tho tort and distribute the arms ammunition
and all United States property among the
friendly Indians. The Indian messenger arrived
on the 7th OF August and urged the captain
70 comply with the orders without . moments
notice, before the powerful Pottawatomies would
have time TO harass him on ns retreat He negected
this for fve days. When he did make the
proposal to tue Indians they accepted his
oner that they should escort MIN 70 Fort
were actually necessary. The Indians declared
Head, In spite Of this warning. marched forth on
road and poured q vOlicy into their nanK nght
pleces the REMAINING Yielding the tnem
selves prisoners. Tho women aud children were
butchered and the fort
Such was the sad "reminiscences or border warfare
which tne rising Garden City gradually enaced In
rose wonderfully into life so with Chicago. As It
became the emporium or the rich products OF tho
timber ana other valuable commodities OF the colder
region OF America the Immigrant from older Europe
and the citlxen OF the Eastern states
MINGLED IN HER THROBBIN0 HEART.
The coal neds were developed and added new
10 snns meg and
As fine grain land as the globe can boast was
burning into gold around ner Hides and tallow
beef ana pork she was rivaling the PorxOpolis OF
the Union. She had gathered around her an army
par with her prospects, and tho advance OF
Chicago became . trtumphal march. Stad
OLD 81 On n ps q on
dash OF her nOurishing young neghbor. Following
the capacities OF young Chicago came
FACILITIES OF COMMUNICATION.
The iron ways spread around her ike net, connect
ing her with Montreal, Quebec and Portland on the
natl ana ali the great points on the east; with
Charleston and Savannah on the southeast
ss s Ses d s On s
would not Never was such mushroom city seen.
Of the fabulous fortunes which were made In the ad-
PRICE IN REAL ESTATE
alone It were Impossible to tell in day. Land
iarmed Sr swamp wnss within
it oversnos the mark three or four years
which was rebuilt in 1915, was pulled down In 1857.
II stood In what is now the very neart OF the city
street-and again IT'S site has licked with the
forked tongue OF the nery element which cfS Its hrst
In 1888 the town was first worthy Of that name.
IN 1887 TT WAS GRANTED cHARrER.
The first vessel unloaded at It's wharf June II,
1884, and in 1881 Its population outside OF hogs de-
moralzed Indians and dogs was 4.l7o. In 1888
there were thirty Ave houses mostly log huts. To
give some idea or It's human advance IL ID only neces-
sary to know that IN 1s43 numbered 1850 souls IN
1847 It was 1883. In 1850 Il t0laed 1929 IN 1855
10 l sSa h rose census ~ n dSss
to- the city proper 2s0,S7o, while including It's
suburbs It footed up
AT LEAST THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND
SOULS.
All the world cried, "Wen done Chicago" and
glory. Like all western cities. it was built
tive cheapness coupled with the scarcity and dear
or other building material, made this neces
sty Built . originally IN .ne midst Of swamp land
rising OF the waters OF Lake Michigan, and tine re-
suit was that much valuable property was thus
defectve, owing to the low level OF the greater part
OF the land on which the city was built. In 1855
this led the CITY Fatners 70 take bold step, ana
ordered that
THE ENTIRE CITY BE RAISED,
houses and ali, to from three to eight and In some
cases to ffteen feet above its then level. The diff
Guilty OF this reat and the manner In which 1t was
surmounted IL standing boast among the worthy
citizens OF the lated town. In the outlying dts
trlcts, where the streets and avenues have not
been raised TO the required level, it Is common to
see the sls the doors or the houses built here and
there along the route raised ten or twelve feet above
the pathway with wooden stair on eiteer sldo
leading 10 platform along the front OF the store or
domlcIle, AZ the case may be. This peculiarly and
the wooden piles on which most or the build
inRs we're raised help 10 make the already comOus-
ttbie material OF the town ready prey to the de-
v0uring element. II seemed as II
sHRINKiN0 PROM DEATH By WATER,
Il had rushed into the arms OF death by flame. The
site Of the CITY Is gently inclined plane running
back for three miles from the lake. and only reach.
ing an elevation above the lake or from fifteen to
eighteen feet In all that extent Behind it runs
through diutton into pure country into the
llmitless nat prairie, In length along the lake it
extends for nearly ten miles, and all that ex.