New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-01
LETTER FROM CHICAGO.

Eire-Public improvements Limited
! Anew Orleans sTanner-Attempted MUIR
/ der and Suicide - Chicago Hotels
/ Amusements-The Wyndham Company
Dolly Vardens.
! Especial Correspondence of the Republican,
CHICAGO, May 90, 1872.
Ipromised in my last to give you slight
idea of Chicago as it now is. Before speak
ing Of the city, would just mention that l
saw burning ruins at some of the old ele-
vators as late as yesterday. Especially was
this noticeable at the foot of West Adams
| street.
To see Chicago to-day, and to have seen
it right after the fire, one could hardly be-
| lieve himself to be in the same city. State
street has numbers of fine buildings erected,
finished and occupied. They are mostly
all marble or stone fronts, plain, but beau
tiful and neat. One thing / especially no.
| tice is the entire absence of mansard roof.
1t was these roofs that tended so much to
1 spread the great cOnhagratiOn OF October
and 9.
The city is certainly very lively, plenty
of business doing of all kinds; workmen
find an abundance of work and so money
| is loose. The authorities are rather bound
down for the want of funds, so they do not
make improvements As fast as it is desira-
BILE. They are now filing up the lake
'front.' and there they will make land enough
to pay the debt of the city. If you were to
take a walk through East Madison street
| Fourth District of course) you would be
surprised at the number and symmetry of
the buildings erected.
The principal firms have splendid edifces
where they are transacting their business,
but 1 am not going to mention who they
are, and in that manner give them the ben
eft Of your circulation in gratuitous adver-
tising.
| The other day met very enterprising
young hide and leather merchant of your
city, Nat. o. Hynson, of the firm of Hynson
g. Rock. He comes West In the interest of
tanning patent which he owns, that tans
| hide IN two hours, which would take
thirty days by the old method. under
stand he is meeting with great success, and
| is causing quite revolution in the leather
business.
| We had a slight sensation here last week
in the shape of an attempt at murder and
suicide. 1t was different little from the
/ usual routine of crime, inasmuch as the
parties were poor, but respectable, and had
lived together happy married life for
some twelve or fourteen years, when sud-
| denly an idea seizes the husband that he
should go away. He is gone some time
| when he hears that his wife is
gone to live with her mother. He writes
her to return, but again deserts her; stays
away some time, and she again. returns to
! Niles, Michigan, where her mother lives.
! He hears of that again, and also that she
! has taken steps to get a divorce. He
swears that she will be sorry. He again
| gets her to return and promise an inter
view. They meet at her sisters, are there
few minutes, left alone together, when
he shoots her through the head, and then
| kills himself instantly. The woman is still
alive and conscious, but she will surely die
| Of the hotels, l would say word They
! are very poor in Accommodations. / was
put into room at the Briggs, when / ar
rived, with only six companions and seven
! beds in the room. How is that for high-$4
| a day? The Sherman was full You can
/ not get a single room at hotel for love or
money.
If the people of this city possess one
weakness more than any other, it is that of
circuses. They are here only three at
time, and they are crowded SO that stand
| ing room is hardly to be got if you go as
late as eight o'clock. There is no dearth of
amusements here. We have three theatres
and minstrel hall all in full blast, and
concert halls without number.
! I went last night to see the Wyndhams,
at the Globe, in the charming comedy of
| Friends" They did only as the Wynd-
/ hams can do. They have been doing ez-
/ ceedingly well since they have been here,
drawing good houses every night for three
weeks past. Mr.. Genese is no more with
them as their agent
| would like to say something of the fash
ions, but it terrifes me. They have every
| thing dolly Varden"-nOte paper, envel-
opes, visiting cards, hats, boots, stockings,
| paper collars, shirts, dresses calicOes. Oh,
from that hated word deliver me. am
sick of hearing it.
! l suppose newspapers will soon have to
become parti -colored and flowing, to be up
with the times, but presume you in New
Orleans are party colOred enough-perhaps
a little too much so. NOSKID.