, 1873-06-08

kifty-drst street in manner which does muc1
credit to the taste Of Mr. L. B. 6idWay, OF th,
Park Commission, on whom this task doYolYet
by common consent Of the Board
Ihe opening OF =
oAxwooD BOULEVARD =
to connect the Grand boulevard With ttDrexal
boulevard Is probably the greatest improvement
the Park Commission have made in their Who'll,
system this spring. This is now 100 feet wide
and has one good carriage-road its entire length
With the opening Of this connecting link. tht
bou1evards aud park afford q continuous drive O,
Grand boulevard. through tie park, up 'Dro1el'
boulevard, and west On Oakwood boulevard Il
1rand boulevard again. Over the. whole dis
tance the roads are smooth, and On either side
the hand Of art has smoothed tho rough coat oil
nature Just enough to make it pleasing to lool
:, Much has been said about South Chicago and
ltB Importance as m objective point, toward which
the city must ineFitsb1y reach out and finally
consolidate to make the lake front . continuous
line OF improvements from the mouth OF Chicago
River to tie mouth Of Calumet River, and yet,
notwithstanding all thnt has been said, wo
hardly think that our own citizens fully
appreciate the fact that the Calumet har-
bor must soon takc - portion OF the
is here transferred from railroads to vessels on
the lakes and vice versa. Manufacturers arc.
however, beginning to see the Importance Of
this fact, and within the last six months no lass
than four large manufacturing establishments
have been located there: The woolen mills Of
Messrs. sinclnir d Co. will be probably the larg-
est in the West, and now employs l25 opera
tives. Tho establishment Of Q factory Of wooden
machinery and tools by Messrs. Kent Baldwin
L Co. will probably employ. fifty operatives.
Messrs A: J. Griggs Z Co. will employ
probably fifty more. The Illinois Steam Forge
Works, whose buildings arc now being erected,
Will employ perhaps hundred men. The Chi
cago Iron and Steel Company are also about to
erect works. Messrs. Kcdfeld t. Sargent are
mill machinery. Besides These, We hear Of alarge
icarwheel manufacturing company having bought
ground for works to bo erected this summer
1he extensive lumber enterprise OF Mesars. Par
dec, Cook blanchard, who expect to tow RATS OF
logs across Lake Michigan, from the Great 8auble
River, Of Michigan, aud saw them up into lumber
on the banks Of Calumet River, has been de-
scrlbed at length by The TRIBUNE and other
city papers.
The above mentioned establishments will, in all
probability, all bo in operation at South Chicago
before fall. and by next spring will be employ
ing not less than 1000 operatives there. These
with their families, and the population
already there, bid fair to give South
Chicago a population Of 5000 people
toned should be located there within that time
1t is probable however that 8 good many other
establishments OF one kind or mother will be
drawn there within the year. The Company who
own South Chicago and vast extent Of adjoin-
ing land are offering large Inducements to manu-
tacturers, and will undoubtedly induce good
many more to come.
With as attractive point toward whica to
reach out it is reasonable to expect that tho
eleven miles Of distance between the mouth OF
Chicago and Calumet Rivers will within few
years be d continuous Ane Of streets and houses.
and that Chicago, instead OF having only one
oVer-taxed outlet for vessels Us now, will hare
two which will eventually be connected by
canal from Blue Island to tho Stock Yards.
RATIO OF PERSONS TO DWELLINGS m FIFTY CITIES
OF TIE UNITED STATES.
Tho following table, made up from the census
report Of 1870, shows some interesting figures
relative to the ratio Of dwellings, to population
in each Of fifty principal cities in the United
States. It will be seen that Philadelphia. though
she has much smaller population than New
York. has nearly twice as many dwellings. Chi
LOUIS, and nearly as many as Brooklyn. The
secret of it is that here land is comparatively
cheap dwellings, in the outskirts Of the city are
small and cheap, and their ownership is
within q mechanics reach. Persons who are
acquainted with the facts Will see, On looking
over the cures; that the cities that are growing
The fastest ara the ones where there are the few
est persons to each house, showing that the
houses aro cheap and thnt the possession of
homes is within the reach Of greater propor-
ton Of tho population. On the contrary, in
places like New York, where the population Is
crowded into tenements, there is no hope for tho
laboring man to better his condition in that re-
spect, and land is go high that the tendency is to
concentrate it into monopoly by few rich men:
CITIES THE cEEgue nF 1R70