Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-06-29

tort, VINO, WIN the garrison, cOnprlseu
the whole population-in number about
seventy. During the year 1888, the
place took sudden start forward, and
numbered fifty families before its close.
The next year there were two thousand
in the town. Bears and
wolves were then roaming the prairies
without the town, and prowled about
nightly, in what is now the heart of the
city. During that year, according to
accounts, about forty wolves were slain
in one day, being pursued outside the
town by all the inhabitants who were
able to bear arms. The town steadily
increased from the time in
1888 WHEN THE CHANGE BEGAN.
Low, fat and marshy, and a great
part of the land now occupied by the CT
ty, being then under water. Imagine
the immense amount of labor in raising
it to its present height Why was not
some more eligible point selected as the
site for this great city ? Simply because
it was seen by far-seeing eyes, what the
place might become with such a harbor
as the Chicago river could be made Yes,
made the river must be made over, to
serve to the best interests of commerce.
1t was mere inlet, from the lake, in
two branches-no current sluggish,
muddy stream, with q sand bar across
its mouth, obstructing the passage of all
except the smaller boats but it has
been made capable of receiving the larg-
est vessels that sail the lakes, affording
q very safe harbor from the storms of
one of the stormiest lakes. This harbor
in its two branches, passing through the
city, gives each mill, elevator or ware
house, an opportunity to receive or ex-
port its products, with every facility.
The great grain elevators, holding mil
lions of bushels, by little steam en-
CINE, raise ship load of grain, and de-
post it in the elevator with the greatest
ease. A channel has been made to con-
meet the Chicago river with the Illinois
Or the canal leading to the latter, and
thus the sewerage of the city escapes
that way.
THE SITUATION OF THE CITY
is unrivalled for commercial intercourse.
Not only the free highway furnished by
Nature, in the great chain of lakes, but
it is the railroad center for vast agri-
cultural territory, is enclosed by COM
plete network of rails, and all these
broad and fertile acres pouring their
wealth into this metropolis, as their
market. [ need not speak of it as the
largest grain market, of its immense
pork-packing interests, or its wonderful
cattle market all this is familiar and
| all this has been the growth of forty
years and much of this work twice &C
= complished.
d The rapid growth and progress of tn
: city is unparalleled. Before the grea
e fire of 1872, the population numbere,
d about 334, 000-the fourth city in siz
n in the United States. That fire. th
y greatest event in its history, which lai
a low the main business part of the city
W and swept the North Division entire. ii
a only "the blackness of ashes marke
DC where it stood" 1t now seems like
III fairy tale, and the wondrous new Chic
Oh 60, which has risen Phenix-like, seer
n like the work of a magician. To see IL
ID, magnificent piles of stone and marble
OBJ block after block reared to such aheig
and In a style of architecture unsurpa.
ed-one would think all this the wo
In' of century at least. To visit
Us THE PALMER, PACIFIC, FREMONT
nu and other hotels, and see the gorgec
Ae' carpets, rich satin upholstery, furnitu
ce' of the Egyptian style-one would aim
Tile think they were in some foreign lal
I'd and in the palace of prince.
e0' THE POPULATION
''er is accounted 100000 to-day, showing
ieil large increase since the fire.
There are nearly two hundred chur
~; es, four theological seminaries and
rms medical colleges. It's system of f
al. public schools is excellent and ii
,os are large number of Furnishing in
,sos tutes and seminaries of high charac
In
MANUFACTURES
Chicago produces almost everything
use or necessary to the comfort, from
- q offer matches to frst-elass pianos,
even 'ready-made cottages" in sect
~ and ready to be packed and sent to
part of the country, at great econom
avel transportation, as all the lumber is
ms ped from up the lake. northern Nj
min gan or Wisconsin.
trot But enough for the present. At
,ucb future time, | may tell you of the
onld Gus charitable institutions Of the
q to and other objects of interest. VIoI
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