The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-05-28


Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatcb.l
MAY tx. 1882.
| came over the Kankekee route from
Cincinnati 10 this place, intersecting the
Illinois Central at kankekec, fifty-four
miles from Chicago. The route from Gin
cinnati 10 Lafayette, Indiana, was through
a good farming region, with plenty OF tim
Der aud an extraordinary proportion OF the
tillable lands sowed 10 wheat, which looked
very promising. Along the Illinois Gen.
tral 20 this place was originally low and
aaf pralre. and all the wheat | saw was
spring wheat. just beginning 10 show, and
the corn lands have been 80 wet that but
little plOughing and no planting has been
done. Villages. railroads, farm-hOlses,
aud orchards have changed the appearance
Of the old-timc Buffalo pastures, and
A population very largely Of non-Eng-
ish-ialking people have forgotten
n they ever knew-that the red man
once owned the soil which they now esteem
20 highly. / have been in this city several
days. and have industriously travelled
around. hoping 10 find something TO talk
about that would interest the Dispatch,
but really am bewldered and don't know
where TO commence. Everybody knows
CHICAGO
i situated on Lake Michigan, has p0p,i-
lation 81 coo. 900. has more railroads, more
Matchmaking establishments, more and
larger grain-eievatOrs than any other city
in the West; but everybody has not seen
The rush and hustle OF its people and the
vast amount II business that j. carried on
Is II It All had 10 be done in limited time.
4 very few years ago a tract one mile wide
and four miles long. in the very heart OF
the city, wa. swept clean by fire, and now
ID i CLOSELY built up with houses mostly i've
md six st0ric. high. aud made A. nearly
ire-proOf BY iron, stone. and brick a
seems possible for houses 90 be; ana all
filed with some cOntriyance Of man 10
catch the almighty dollar. The sidewalks
are wide aud 20 are the streets, but the one
Is 90 crowded with pedestrians that You
have 70 move with the tide, and the other
/. 80 crowded with ,trcet-cars and wagons
that Won incur risk in making a crossing.
Many of the buildings are very large and
fine. notably the City Hall and post-oifice,
which / think h. the largest and finest
building ever saw, excepting the Capitol
Al Washington. and il is said 10 have cost
rfNFiAl llikltNlir ~ uftlnNs
BIO HOTELS.
The Chicagoans think they have three
II fhe largest and best hotels in America
To wit: The Palmer. the fremont, and the
Grand Pacific. They are certainly large
enough and fine enough, and charge suili-
riently Ia satisfy the vanity Of any " Shod-
dyiie" that ever stuck 4 pig, skinned q
calf. or drew his ralions from Uncle SANS
larder: but for real hOme-like comfort COM
mend me 20 other less prctentiOus establish
ments have seen elsewhere than IN Chi
.cagO.
NOVEL sTREET-CARs.
They have two lines Of street-cars here,
each five miles long. that are run by q sta.
iOnary engine that works an endless cable
which runs underground in the centre OF
the track. Three long, rOomy coaches arc
attached 90 each other. and they can stop
or start them anywhere and instantly.
speed. seven miles an hour; fare. five
cents. The "tuTnOuts y are very snowy.
and nicer drive than the "Grand Boule-
ward " YOU could not desire. ON the lake
YOU see large number Of steam and Sail
ing vessels. some Of them very large. On
Yesterday visited the
sr0CE-YARDs AND PACKING-HoUsEs.
An immense area il covered by the stock.
pens. packing-houses, and various other
buildings pertaining 10 the business. and
the stock numbered thousands. | saw a
drove 81 about two hundred a. pretty and
fat Young hogs n | ever saw driven into d
receptacle at packmg-h0uSe. and in hall
an hour afterwards they were hanging NJ
I'm large room. ready 10 cut up into suci
pieces a. are suited 30 the market. All the
lifting and moving il done by steam ma
rmnery, and several curOusly-reyOlying
wheels will scrupe all the hair of a hog
before you turn round twice. They are
passed along from the throat-cutting Ia the
cooling room in single file, but 50 close "a
each other that they almost touch, and the
handlers stand 10y the wayside. and each
one has hi, special duty 20 perform IN
"sPEEDlNG THE PARTING GUEST
The butchers and cleaners are be-
smirched with blood and filth from head "a
foot. and the odor of the establishment vii
dwell with YOU a. remembrance.
never want tO visit another hog or beef
packing house. | did not see any beeye'
killed. being too late. but a room with
several hundred -ides hung up in II "a
cool. They divide the beef by cutting
Through the whole length Of the spina
column aud hang mp each side separately
These people seem 10 do every thing in q
hurry. | saw a funeral procession, and q
large one. passing along the street on yes.
terday, and ! DO think that the corpse
mOurners, and all, We're making time thai
would have done credit to any fasbiona
bic tr0tiing park.
] guess YOU think | have gossippec
enough for one time, and agree with you
the more especially a. | leave at IL NJ
! for Denver ria Kansas City. {. Nj. X.