The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-07
erievc to say to the judiciary AID its -indepen.


The Changers order can now poll nearly as many
votes as ali other associations Of men put together
held sn at indianspcs last Week they had twenty
four States represented ana ninety socletles, WIN
1850 delegates IN all but the most sIae
port of the Secretary Of this Congress, VINO says
that there are already 900 agricultural assoca,
membership of 400 900 farmers This estimate EVIL
gently includes all the State, county and town or
soards Councils sv and Patrons Of Industry TWO
thirds of these associations 1t Is announced nave
since the attention Of the farming community has
been directed to the special hardships winch IL ID
called upon to bear IN Dad year: s., 20 10 nre.
THE RITUAL OF THE GRANGERs
ut the CITY OF Washington ID. c., In the year 1857.
lie took the idea from Scottish society OF far
mers in North Carolina and divided the members
'H First ST degree Laborer male. Maid remale):
Second degree, Cutivator Shepherdess. Tnird
bafsdman, Matron. Fifth degree, Pomona (iope)
Sixth degree. the National Grange. seventh de-
The oilcers are as fonows:--Master, Overseer,
Lecturer steward, Assistant Steward, Chaplain,
Treasurer, Secretary, Gatekeeper, Ceres, Pomona
trance is sixteen years for females and eighteen
for males, and the entrance fee Is IS for males and
A topic of alarm among Eastern and New YORK
bankers and merchants is the possibility OF Chi
cago failing to keep up under the excessive debt
involved in its reconstruction. / think that q
few figures will satisfy the most nervous on this
head
The corporate receipts OF Chicago city for the
year ending March 81, 1873, were nearly eight and
half millions OF dollars, and after all expenditure
there was a balance in the treasury Of nearly one
million. The total bonded debt Of the city was
about thirteen and half Millions with floating
liabilities OF nearly two millions more. The value
OF school property is about two and quarter mil
ee counsel and ali the Salaries Of the
city officers and city clerks combined make but
SS4ooo Newspaper advertsng Costs 6o inc n c
for taxation, 10 s2s4,O 900; fifteen mills on the
dollar is the city levy, and there have neither been
| deficiencies nor deialcations OF any kind.
FLAT1ERING STATEMENT
awe are in very prosperous CONDITION, ,, SAID
Mayor Medin to your correspondent. ''The State
| Of Illinois, which was In debt to the amount OF
lions to twelve millions in 1850, has brought the
amount down to $20o0,O00, and Is not allowed to
pay OF the rest because our gold bonds are r not
We have no peculatlons nor scandals IN the city
government to give us trouble; our expenditures
have all been made upon economical, cOmprehen
sive and necessary systems OF improvements. The
fire having shown us the value or water we have
pipe; our perfected and amended sewerage mas
cost us $3,o0o,oGo. For new school houses
ming sixty scholars to the room-we have spent
SIS 900; and to deepen the Illinois Canal, cut
lance Of thirty 11 niles we nave 01 paid @
Inquired 4 this canal haa proved successes.
perfectly" SAID the Mayor. "WltnOut IL
would not be endurable in Chicago Formerywe
used pumping machines to clear the harbor, but
now the Illinois Canal gives us one grand sewer, and
vessel drawing six and half feet OF water can sail
up the lakes and down the Mississippi through this
canal We pass 25 900 cubic feet Of water per min
prehensions that this will disturb the level OF the
lake are groundess. Our two tunnels for travel
s., $50, 900"
THE GREAT NORTHWESTERN METROPOLIS.
The changing Of the course OF the Illinois Canal
other consequences OF significance The canal
now being in Communication with both the lakes
and the gulf, the manufacturers have pitched upon
it as the site Of the greatest advantage.
so called, in Chicago was private speculation,
and Mr.. Gilmore, whose name was brought promi-
nently forward in II, did not know, when he came
strumental accessory in something well organized,
and perhaps, abetted By the city government. The
amount Of money but Gilmore himself was out Of
pocket $3.50. and he left here in truly melancholy
eO a s1 q
impressed into putting in personal appearance.
and the pretext OF the affair was to show mankind
The day Of the jubilee o great hotel OF the city
| was thrown open and promptly filed with wonder
ing people. This hotel Is, ON the whole, the most
perfect on the American Continent. 1t does not
contain AZ many rooms as the st. Nicholas and
some OF the saratoga houses, but the rooms are
the largest in the country OF the same character,
few Of them being less than twenty five feet
square. The house itself is 1875 feet by 1856, the
Wilton carpet, Of American manufacture which
covers the halls is more than q mile long; there
dred Bedrooms equal in size and Quality rom the
first to the seventh door, and It takes 2lS servants
to attend to the guests cost There are sS o.
was sl,2oo,oo0. and the furniture cost besides,
Meantime the other great hotel building by Pot
| ter Palmer approaches completion. 1t Is FAR more
costly than the Pacific, coming up to the figure Of
The great features OF this house are that it is en-
tirely reproof; all the floor beams and raters are
the marble decorations surpass s anything the
| kind In the world. Mr.. Palmer's house, however,
deal cut the building 2o
tached accessories, respectively $50 by 1875 and 100
It may be said, to show the elasticity of business
| in Chicago, that the firm to whom Potter Palmer
sold his business, with the guarantee Of not again
| opening in the dry goods trade in Chicago. now
have trade Of $22, 200, 900 year, and their new
store has cost ss50,ooO. Another firm has put up
! building,
which cost 100000, and their business amounts to
$4,000, Oooa year. Three dry goods houses, one Of
| goods than Louisville, Cincinnati and ST. LOUIS
with all their merchants ana trade added together.
| owner made most OF his investments, is but partly
built MP. Perhaps two.nlths OF the space occupied
by residences In North Chicago prior TO the fire Is
| stil bare and awaiting development.
The axis OF the city has In the meantime shifted;
West Chicago Is somewhat more important than
! before the nre while South Chicapo-the real
Cbicago-contains very many acres more OF bust
ness houses than In the best days prior TO the con-
| nagration.
There were fifteen railroads running into Chicago
before the fire, and fifteen have since been wholly
Cv partly constructed There are now said to be
tventy-iour railroads operated from this city.
Oluy one company, or rather combination OF two
COZ upanies has reconstructed It's depot on the
forl yer scale OF magnihcence-the Michigan South
ern and Rock Island and Pacific This building
cost 100000, and Is handsomer than before II was
destroyed
Cnic Sgo rs now In the midst OF squabbe about
the PLANS lor
THE NEW CITY HALL,
which isT0 GO up on the site Of the old one. As
there ares forty.nine competing plans. and all the
architects and their friends are pulling and haul
ing there seems to be no immediate solution OF
the question: probable. The government building
for which 81 600, 900 have been appropriated by
Congress, IL above the basement. The ground cost
ST. 900, andAhe structure Will be 500 feet square,
in
HIDEous RoMAHEsQUE ARCHITECTURE
with haste by that alaaher IL a 40