, 1881-04-03

area; and. more important Still. naVtBaol
| stream, the Calumet River, upon which stenu
| craft can piy from It's mouth ut Lake Michigan
far Il distance or more than ten miles within the
] limits Of the villuge-: 1t coutns, also. Bcvera
| manufacturing centres Of grcnt present impur'
tunce. and Of extraordinary possibilities for fut'
| ure Development Nearly ten miles OF Its east
ern shores arc washed By the waters Of Lnkt
| Michignn, atfOI6ing ATTRACTIONS for residence
| uulaled by few places in the country: while It'll
whole area IS destined eventually to be thlckl,
.ndorned With homes Or places Of business. Q!
! manufacturing establishments.
| The most significant Indication OF the
magic growth of the New Chicago was the
| first stroke of the famous Centennial
| (Corliss) engine at the Now car-works ut
! Pullman yesterday Nine months ago there
was no sign of industry at that spot. Dur
| ing five Of those months there has been con-
| tinuous and severe winter weather. Yet
yesterday the largest engine in the world
! was started rs the central motiye-power Of
one Of the. most extensive manufacturing
schemes eyer organized. During this brief
period the Pullman Car Company, under the
impulse and direction of Mr.. George n.
Pullman, from whom, 1t takes its nanae has
constructed buildings with an aggregate
frontage of 5000 feet, has laid out great
private dwellings, watcr-works, and all the
modern appurtenances of progress and COM
fort, and actually entered upon operations
which project the construction of 100 cars
a day. Tho vast car-building works. which
are under the management of the Pullman
Company, are only the pivot of the manu-
featuring interests which are alrgady under
way. The buildings are now III process of
construction to accommodate the manllfact~
ure Of the paper wheels which are destined
to take the place OF iron wheels for all rail-
road cars. and are already in universal use
Oh the Pullman cars. The wood for the
manufacture Of: the paper can be brought
direct from tile northern STORE Of Lake
Michigan to the works through the Calumet
River, canal, and lake. There 1t will be re-
duced to pulp and condensed under tre-
nlendous hydraulic pressure to a solidity
like grant, impervions to water and all
atmospheric conditions. Incascd in a steel
band that holds it like 4 wise this paper
car-wheel has been found to be more
durable, and it is also cheaper, than the
iron car-wheel. But this is not all. Vast
locomotive-works will follow closely upon
the completion of the car-wheeI works, and
the former will firtl their material at hand
FROM Browns mills at Irondale, and the
North Chicago Rolling-AIills, now located at
South Chicago, and both just across Lake
Calumet, and connected with Pullman by
water, rail, and wagon roads. Pullman will
have railroad Of its own running into the
centre of Chicago with cheap and frequent
suburban trains, and within ayear that single
settlement, among the twenty included in
the New Chicago. will have population Of
10000 people comfortably housed, provided
with permanent employment, and living in
the manufacturing district of the future
great city of this continent.
No one who has had the opportunity Of !
personally noting the growth Of what we
have called the New Chicago will suspect the !
slightest eXaggeration in this confident pre-
dictionof future greatness. The stride Of !
the manufacturing giants in this community |
from now on will be colossal. People who |
live III other sections may, and probably will,
doubt, because they have never been able to |
keep pace even in thought with the progress
Of this city. Those who live here know by |
experience that. exasgeration is simply i'm
possible as regards Chicago's future. An
Did resident Of the city, with that serene con-
1dence III its destiny which possesses nil
people who remain in Chicago overnight, |
vas once tainted with propensity to exag-
yerate, and replied: II have sometimes tried
when 1 have been away from home to invent
1t night some fabulous story to relate about
Chicago next morning, and when woke up
would always find that actual progress had
my widest fabrication That is
tl1egory; but it is all the same good pict-
ire of the actual condition of things, as the
New Chicago will prove.