Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-22
THE NEW CHICAGO.

Lately there was Chicago, which
has assembled partly to the skies in fame
and smoke, and crumbled partly to the
earth in ashes and ruins. That Chica-
go belongs now wholly to history. But
there is another Chicago, which belongs
to the future-a Chicago more cyclopean
in its massiyeness, more aesthetic in its
architecture, more secure in its durabili-
ty, more sagacious in its providements
more comprehensive in its commerce.
more utilitarian in its progress. All
materials necessary for this grander real
ization remain in prodigal abundance.
What was consumed by the confagra-
ton was merely part of the accumula-
lions of industry. The site for city
continues. Our geographical position
as commercial center possesses all the
inherent advantages it ever had. Our
lines of water communication are I'M
touched. Our railroad thoroughfares
are unimpaired. Our harbor still opens
wide its embracing arms. Our fleet of
incoming and outgoing vessels exists in
undiminished number and efficiency.
The immense trade that made this mart
the entrepot and emporium of the North
west, is as vast, as necessitous, as ur-
gent, as reliable, as ever it was. More
than all, the sagacious brains. the in
domitable wills, the far-reaching enter
prise, the stout arms and still stouter
hearts, that made of Chicago wonder
of material development and business
power-a name to be proudly spoken
throughout all the world-are here TO-
day in all their native vigor, calmly re-
garding the worse, and looking forward,
with conscious self-suficiency and conf
dent determination, to the best. Our
, earnest population are thoroughly i'm
bued with the sentiment of St. Paul's
celebrations to the Philippians: For
! getting those things which are behind,
and reaching forth unto those things
which are before.
With grim sort of factiousness the
Chicago of the past was won't to vaunt
its superiority in all respects. All its
accomplishments were on grand scale.
Needing higher grades for its streets, it
elevated the city on screws, and reposed
it upon higher foundations. Requiring
pure and inexhaustible water supply
it went out miles into Lake Michigan to
effect its object. Demanding more con-
venient avenues of transit across the riv-
er, it burrowed tunnels underneath the
stream itself. Wishing to get rid Of the
stencil drained through the sewers into
the same river, it carved out a connec-
ton with the Mississippi, and poured
the pellucid waters of the lake, in a pu-
rifying current, through the new chan
mel. Even its crimes were remarkable
crimes, and its criminals were hunted
down with wonderful detective sagacity
It's suicides were wickedly original. II
what it had of wickedness was extraor-
binary, what it had Of goodness was
equally so. Chicago's claims were that
all it did was entirely out of the plane
of the common place. This distinctive
ness-this majestic Individuality
maintained unto the very last; and wher
it departed in fame and crumbled int
, ruins, it placed itself at the head of The
list of all confagrations. in everything
, that is sublime, terrible, destructive
) Out of the ashes of this holocaust, is t,
/ spring the Chicago of the future, with
nobler symmetry, a grander eminence
7 a wiser forecast, broader influence, ant
: a mightier ascendency. This is the re
alization which all its permanent citi
E zens have resolved must be-
Edward Tinman was married to /
woman in Connecticut last week, an,