, 1876-01-24
A Gosslpy Description Of Scenes and
Incidents In The History Of The
Garden City.
Prot. w. Q. Cummings Third Leo
ttlre on Geology.
Searching Through tho Hidden
Records Of tho Rocks.

tnro Association, ha subject being "Wbat lse-
member OF Early Chicago" Following Is Ills
discoursc Ia full:
Tho charor OF thc City Of Chicago bears daso
March 4, 1887, and tue irat election for CITY oi-
cera was hold on the first Tuesday In May. 1887.
Not fow Of tho men and women VINO saw 1t
when an Indian trading post. WITH Fort Dearoofh
10 dofeud tho settlers, hro Sill among uet and
tho ladies certainly would not feol lconlpimcntod
wero they callod old. Hence whatovor ts said
about "Tlo Early Times in Chicago" must bo
numbered 80 yoarc, Aa l FIRST saw Chicago In
O,,oho, talG aud cornmcnccd nv nn,mnncnt
,a.;anuo. ,,os, ~ ~ 1o,t, ~ s1a. 1a1a ~,
residence hoso on thc a2th OF ala!, lo4s' can
scarcely be cRlled IN Old ciizeu, aud yet IN that
timo II has grown from q city Of about 1000
1ater in the season tho cepsus rayo us 90 0o1l 10
nn,r,v ;r mt cuitc. Aso oooE,n tncrcnsa ucver
.ns Ias..' aov'ets' a. ,';s.o ,,,a
world. From city then scarcolJ over mott
toned, sho Las becptuo tho fourth In rank and
ponulntlon upon tho American Continent,
Nm ,.,,r,,n, to- ,ho ,nn,,ont ,ho, mn mn o,a
sls1z'n' l recognizes tho duty o. placing on
record,-as m5solf and others hAvo doubtless
of,ou beou urged To lo,-wllat know personally
Of tho history Of Chicago. Though tl!s may re-
qure 100 1soausns ee aso Q. 'no p.ssuha1 pto
noun' your Directors are fctponslo9oh u oofo
eo,, with e. n earh r1tiynn ynu1j tfo It, tha
,psura historian could se,oct. what best
'Iutcd his purpose, anu CAlcaeo Woulu
havo what no othor city has-a history from its
earliest times, written by its living fuhahltau,s
IN 1864, ! prepared and published Homa notea
on sho haa1otS u tno 4oWn OF tn'ceso-ia iaet
going back to tho discovery OF the site by tho
french Jesuit missionaries. Marquette aud
Joliet, mud shall devote tho hour to giving you
ourP's'noA' =. WAY uD@" ~ y, .1N w"
lemph!et o! !oo4: In!a Mhs aoly coat'nnea
y ny Iflona, Eihs ColEelt, ~ !oo1 oas i nelael
81 them pletcnds TO El1o mich o. hoW CiNoaso
appeared to the Slsisof ID the " ea1hef slmeb
sflts history. .o,,
no. CHICAGO IN la4e'
louf speaker, ~ ABOVE alatoa' ntht arrived 10
Chicago Early IL shS morning Of she secoua sao.
bath in October, l8aG, now Of eourso nearly
thirty yeass aHo. No landed from tue steamer
Oregon, Capt. Cotton. neas tha foos & Wabash
Aycnue, and with othcrss yallHe IN hand: tradg-
ID through the snn1 TO ilc Ameracan Iompo1-
snee House then situated on tho northwest COT
TOR Of Wabash avonuo aud Lake street. Boon
litter breakfast ta,l young man. made apps.
rcntly taller ~ cioth CLOAK ~ which hls gauue
shoss reserved, modest mnpne5s wero The very
tevezao OF what wo bad expected to
bud at tho Wost, called on me
clergy Ok ous party ana aoVlsed ono oi them 70 70
.ho Second Preshyterf9u Church. Ihat cloak
would DOW bo we'll Allied by Its owner, tho 10y;
D.. Patterson who has grown physically aa we'll
intellectually aud morally will, tho growth OF
tho city to whouo nosal welfare be has 30 largely
contributed. Of course NO all went to what by
eourtcsy, rs We thouEht, WAS called church
1t waa ono.stoEy balloon shsnty.lks Bttuo-
suto that had bean patched out At onq end to
meet Tue wants Of tho increasing congregation.
It stood on ltando!ph Htrcet south aldo, little
last OF Clark, It certainly gave no promise OF
tho antique but splendid church that before
;he tiEe stood on tho corner OF Warrington
md Wabash avenue, or that still moro elaborate
Ind coBily building. tho 10y. Dr. dibaona
church, at the corner Of Michigan avonuo aud
iwentleth street. --
That afternoon and Monday morning afforded
ample tino to 300 the city Tho residence po1,,
ton Of it was mainly between 1sandolph and
Madison streets, and thero we're Homo scattered
honsos o. far sottsh na Van Buron, on the south
Side. four Of hvo blocks north Of the river on
tho North Side, NTH scattering residences shout
aa far on tue wost Side: There wore pethaps
half a.dozcn or tnoic wooden warehouses alonK
tha rfyer IN Weter BtfAek. Tho f6W etOraH that