The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-06-21
OUR CHICAGO LETTER.
DoingsI in That Wicked City-Negli-
gence of the City Authorities
Social Notes etc,
etc, etc.
CnIcAeo, ILLS, june 1eth, 1s7e.

Yesterday morning at three O'Clock
the members of the Kansas press asso-
citation who are ON their annual excur-
sion trip arrived in Chicago via the
Chicago 81 Alton road. Aland slide at
Bloomington in this state caused a few
hours delay, and the party arrived a
little LATHE later than expected. A
round of pleasure and sight seeing will
be INDUCED in and no doubt their
brethren in the profession here will
make the journalists stay here one of
pleasure and interest.
The Chicago yacht club held its first
regatta Saturday, and it was a very I'M
promising affair, nothing of interest
being done, in fact, but a race between
two pretty little water nymphs, the Ina
and the Frolic. After the race the
Mischief, a little stakes boat capsizes,
but her crew Of four men were saved.
There has recently been another bridge
horror here. This time a young fire.
man in the full strength and pride of
manhood was precipitated into the riv-
er and lost his life just through the
criminal negligence of our city fathers.
Scarcely a week passes that an accident
does not happen on n of the bridges,
yet sufficient warning has never yet
been given to induce the common coun-
Gil to use the proper precaution against
such occurrences.
A citizen drowned or crushed by the
bridge turning has become quite an oft
repeated story and few whose business
it should be eve stop to listen to it.
But public indignation is at last arous-
ed, and it is well, for the number of
victims of criminal carelessness in this
direction have become too numerous to
let pass unheeded by a civilized commu-
nifty.
All the bridges should be provided with
signals so on dark nights those APP
preaching in their direction can be ap-
prised of danger. And until this or
some more sure preventive of these hor-
rible accidents is adopted, every one
which occurs should be denominated
murder, and the mayor and common
council are the ones to be punished for
it. Young Coyle who vas the last to
lose his life in this way was highly res
pected here. He was the support of a
widowed mother and two sisters who
are almost frantic at his loss. When
killed he vas seated on a truck which
was dashing down the street at a break
neck pace to a fire, and as the night
was dark the driver of the truck drove
straight into the river instead Of on
the bridge which was without any sig
nal or safeguard swung.
The Chicago commercial club which
was taken in tow by Boston day before
yesterday, report a royal reception. A
formal reception took place in Horti-
cultural hall where dinner vas also
served. The affair must have been a
magnificent one from what we read of
it, and the number of distinguished
persons present, added greatly to make
it memorable. Oliver Wendell Holmes
composed and read. a poem OF the occa-
sion and many other notables honored
the gathering with their presence. Just
ly may our commercial men feel honor
ed by such treatment.
Fashionable Chicago has already be-
gun to depart for summer residences,
and by the first of July most of the ele-
giant houses on the duty thoroughfares
will be peopled only by servants.
Geneva lake is probably the finest
suburban resort and many of the first
families are already domiciled there in
villas which might have been built for
the fairy species, so light and airy do
they seem in structure. And 1t is here
that such famous fish are caught and
about which lake we wrote in a former
letter. Whole families go out there for
recreation, and not unfrequently take
servants and horses and carriges along.
Our mayor received a letter the other
day from the socialistic party which for
the time set his head in a whirl. 1t
was not signed, but its purport was
that on the Fouth of July, his honor
and all of the head city officials with
the exception of the Irish were to be
cut off-to be poisoned in fact. But
people who write. threatening letters
seldom execute their threats, and not
much is to be feared, it is thought.
And what at the theatersp Well,
"Pinafore'' last week at three of them,
under full sail. This week Tony Pas
tor ut Haverly's; 1.-THE Little Duke'
and "Fantinitza,n at McVicker's, and
aftermath, or Won at Last" at
Hooley's. The great London circus
is in town and tonight there is to be a
great electric light show, and to-mor-
row a grand procession. Tonight
Annie Louise Cary with a chorus of
$50 voices from the Beethoven society
will give yerdi's grand requiem at
Haverly's. This will probably be the
most magnificent performance Of this
kind ever given in America. +. Z.