, 1880-06-13
Appearance of the Town at That
Time-The Leading Business
Honse3.
Hotels and Characterization and the
Slavery Question-Nilliam Box
Brown.
Eow Chicago Was Reached in '36-A
Centre Of Real-Estate epecula.
ton.
lnRstioa and Subsequent Lain Caastd lJ Gen.
Iatlsen's '1ar upon The United
States Bank.

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me 1''e1 a. "ne ues W "a. ~. no 40
Town On tne ooutn o1oe ~ tne i'Hei nea.e. ~
the fort than S:ate street. then saw few
9eaoonets lug pe."een ~" ~ p'.1 ",.oe
none opo'e n"sa street 1ne LaAc 11ouse' ue''
new anu 3ust openine' s'@''o ouL p'on'snsn.s .
snd that. with the warehouse OF h'nz4e' hunte1
& c., uluw Rush street, 0nd tho forest north
Of tho Lake House, nearly hid the rest Of the
tac. rr,,, ..;a,r 7 .o,,,d hou.eror ret a plfnnsc
eo"n ..om .s~ ~ .oA' w. 'A' so' . ''f
4 LITTLE HUDDLE,
which II, fart reached p;,iy from along the bank
Of The river, Oh tie Eorth Side, to Lake street,
though beyond tlAts as lar as an buren street.,
bctwcen State and Wells were quite uumber
800 - .:'.t; s ~ t,ss,o s,r,o+ Tso No,+h s,ds,
aoost:s uottn =. A'o@'e otteet" lug NULL o4oo
VAS almost entirely covered with timber; nut 1t
nse ss % ~ f,sr;. p. Il. sotle ~ strect IN onenns
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1'o aiu'us "n'4c nons NV t,'Tl =. nau
% the North Nranch and clear down to the main
t;,a,t IN ,as.,S ~ 49, .hrn,,a,, ,h., sca++are.
4ces, res m bad: tho % appearance of hill. l con,
auded that the huddle mentioned Of which
l. hu1 caigAt glitnpses. must be
u1rrtiy crnvcr.rncc fur harbor-busincss, aud
that the if3tif 13ll1Et he 6FEOu0 the hill
,,,,,,.:rn, M .,,.yri ia stnn ne ! i.n,ld net m
,s.s IT, i,,,a, s. 10 .,,sc<z- h,
eno' n4eI "'A7 ~ uoa~ .oF .ue eea,oSe' s nea
lodged QUA bar between the p:efs,-i hastened
up Sv,,tt whtes street, with was the priucipal
busifass street III Chicago. to see the town of
uh;,t; h,d bt-,,11 a. .nucb o,,t which s,,n-
@ .. 80, s~ ~,
P'Neo "As Over tue MI but' ANS! tne t4sioa
which Hnd cdutursi up sooH v:iniahcu into
th'u AIR. ! s1,F t*.1t're 9ne' aafetcht7g toward
u.' WcsL the btnnltss, uuGr0kefi; nnu unoctl-
pieu prairie. Ho"cter, ~OT looking about
1ounu <.-.... "A.
0oop DEAL OF ToWN,
and e,ionr'' 'Icreln TO interest me. The town
was fun , ovrr1uwit1G EVERY place w,s
picked a1lu crdintncd with travellers Only to-
day cihie a&:ross * letter itur, the Of the way
farefs Of thar day to hts Eustetl home, III which
he felates that l1t active efforts Ne found in
Chcnko p|att. ySffcra he Enuld yet his meals iu
o1te huuse. aud lo.riE&s lii another house. or
rather which would be hpuse when completed;
and there be had tn sleep OH The Hosir with
fcuttcfa uiidcr him which had btea moved on
.he prairie.
Tie hotels were the fremont House. on the
corner ptptsit from the present palA G hutel''
Of that latr1r: the New Turk House. on Lake
street y@ht:re sufYlotus store now star1ds: the
Extharpc {nfyt.t. U,nIst On the uorfI, west cor
mr. tyf lake and We}ls. fhe SGt1ya,,ssh an Mnr-
ket near Lake; the Mursion House. on Lake be-
tween Dcurbnrn and State; the Green Tree.
still standing at tie cor11er Of Lake and
CainL-all tw0-story wooden buildtnga; u
AsE hotel, fronting the river, near the Green
True; aud the Lake House, which was qRite a
pren.ut1ous brick structure. used to hear won-
dtrful stories from travellers about the over
crowdlag IF these hotels Some slept on the
Nx1..1 A-tf Ia $