, 1873-06-12
THE NEW CHICAGO.


Other ContinoMt.ss
cAt'ago tJuns o corrtsoondeno6 a tho 81. Lous Re-
publican.
To 500 Chicago now for tho first tt1ne since bo-
that sho was over actually destroyed The trans
formation ia evident enough, but thoro Ia moth
Ing to produce the impression that at ono Btago
Of tho motamorphosis, thirty Or forty blocks In
tho South Division wcre nothing but blaok,
burned waste Of unsightllnoas, oinders aslos,
and despair. Tako just ono Btroct, for example,
Dearborn, and look up md down 1t oaoh way
from tho standpoint Of the now Tn1nuNr office,
at the corner Of Madison. Tho buildinga arc
solid, beautiful, continuous. There ls nothing
about thom, a. thoy stretch along for half mile
IN almost unbroken front Of iron, marble and
brown etono, indicating TINT they were bullt in
ANYTHING Of hurry. ?herc Is no "glngor-broad
work, no intrinsic show or gaud concealing
thoro Is not in tho world . hnndsomor street
than Dearborn, from Lako to Monroe In ts arohi-
tooturnl avorago. The Dearborn front Of the
new Iromont House. now nearly completed on
tho old aito is tho handsomost blending Of ornn-
along, this street, moeting With an, architectural
snrpriHo evcry half block. You glance up from
tho massive rango-wors Of tho basomont along
II the facades OF the front, to tho curvod re-
view tho lgurcB "1s72," touch tho nnish Of tlo
picture.
This " 1877" " Is henceforth storiod date, It
10 lcgond that these grand monuments Of
human pluck and skill and enterprise will bear
muto @ oloquonce, compared to which D Domos-
thenian M tongue could but prnttlo, that Chicago
rebuilt horsclf in one year, and that year WIS
lo7x-for these figures arc absolutely bewildor-
iipg IN the very monotony Of their presence upon
tho apex OF every structure.
How enough men found room to do all this
work In 40 short o timo is tho myatory. How
the matoria! for all those Simultaneous structures
could havo been moulded, quarried cut droBsed,
fofgeds nn;gd cast sawed, planned, fitted, joinod,
dream, porhaps, but deios solution in wakoful
mind Whence came all the artisans! Thero WAS
$4,000 OF them at work at one time last summer.
Whose loosenoa purao-Btrlngs lot ont the eighty
millions Of dollars that have taken all those
6hapos Of iron and stone in a twelyemonth7 It.
1a uaeloBs to attempt by detail to convoy an
adequate idea OF tue appearance IT this rebuilt
city and OF tho object Of nsBooiating her prasout
aspect with the cid, then with our Imagination or
tho whole Thought with tho reelection That e thee
tlmo for the nletamorphoBis yet lacks long
summer OF being two yoarH We used to boast,
out on the frontier, that we had puils Cheyenne
IN nwcok, and thought that tho conglomeratlon Of
md in which tho cosmopolitan American citizon1
ato, slopt, played pohor, said Lis prayers, or
bucked at faro. WAS q marvel Of sudden life
and Industry. But tho labor that laid the
foundation walls OF any ono Of these inatan-
tanoons t1ve-stofy palaces of Chicago would hayo
built Cheyenne in ton hours, not to speak Of
dayl.
Just try to fancy magic lantern vast enough
TO take u the perspective OF q whole city. a
turn OF tic sceno shows q grcat rod wave Of
hamo aweepiug fur and wide. Another turn
shows scorched monotony Of deaoation. An
other shows Q forost Of derriokB, III army of
artisans, Wilderness Of material, and On In
describablo hustle OF industry. And thon an-
other turn reveals tho most beautiful city on this
or any other continent. That settles II. Do
soription .pauscs hore, not half done, but con-
tent to admit the impossibility of Justice to tho
subject. Laudation Of tho enterprise and tho
energy that have done thoHe maryels would bo
Buperiuous. Tho effort to dwarf them, or do
procate thor rosults, would bo too absurd to bo
ridiculous.