Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-11-21
CHICAGO LETTER
Improved Newspaper Sem
tlmsnt Toward the South
lust and Sensible Views Of an In
dependent Republican Paper
The Palmer HOuss---Its
Owner and Manager.
A House Of Worldwide Fame and
Popularity Graphically Described
and Complimented by
"Kayr."
A Pen Picture she Public VIII
IndOrse.
A Pen Picture she Public VIII
IndOrse.
Special Cor. Memphis Ledger.

everybody is out promenading, dr-V-
ing, riding or lettering on the street
corners eujoy ng what may prove to be
the last real fine day Of fall. When
little snow fell here last Tuesday
MOI ming no thopght VT 5 entertained
that to day would be SO attractive.
Sunday is an ocearion looked forward
TO v til 10y by hundref : OF thousands
Of Chioa ,oaps who toll hard eli the
week. Cons, queAtly, iflthe weather
happens o be bad, le disappoin ment
is yeIy great WNft3g
Northern newspaper sentiment to-
ward the South is gradually changing
to raiionalism. Especially is this tue
case With journals that are read by
the majority OF people IN the region
where they are published. The howl
| ings Of the bloody shiIt sectional and
bigoted class, because Of the success
Of the Democrats II Virginia over
| Malone aud disreputlbleism, caUs S
the Daily News oil Chicago TO give
inference to a few very pertinent re>
marks that should afford plenteors
food for thought for the dems gogues
who do not wish to see this
Grand country of ours prosper
as a united and happy fairly. IRE
! Daily News is q sensipie, libeTal and
| indepehdentRepublican journal, whose
motives cannot be questioned, aud
whose purpose is to see dead issues
forever buried, and ftat1rnal love TO
don; nate all other feelings between
the sections ard elements Of our land.
This item from the DailyNews should
be published far and wide. Here it is:
why not reverse the phrsse, a solid
South means a solid MOI th2' So long
as partisan papers in the North are
! filled with mistrrst and hostility to-
ward the South, solely because it is
Democratic, so long ' III il remain so,
When the Republican party Of the
/ North ceases to be solid against the
Democratic rule jn the South the
cause which fosters and perpetuates
that rnle vii be removed. 1t is nom
sense to talk Of 'ffateroal feeling
between he two sections while poll
ficians make every election pretext
for tearing open ? 'esh the wounds Of
the late war;
Ten years in the penitentiaig, This
was the verdict Of the jury yesterday
liz the Kerr case. Mr.. Kerr wfI
convicted Of having stolen about S55,-
Gao from the bank Of his employees,
Preston, Kean & Co., Chicq 90. An
Indictment for forgery stands against
him also. The accused denied the
Jurisdiction of the trying court, and
his attorneys will take tie matter be-
fore the Supreme Court Of the United
States 1t will be remembered that
Chicago detectives smuPgled Kerr
back from Peru in an unlawful mans
ner. Aside from this, the verdict
was correct. Hanging for steali0g"
would be q wholesome remedy.
Hon. ". NJ. Springer, OF Illinois; is
not, as some rumors state, out Of the
race for the Speakership. If West
ern man is TO be selected, no ADLER
person could be chosen 10 FIJI that very
important position. tlA
The Palmer House, Chicago. |
wonder If there is an intelligent per,
son throughout the English speaking
world who has not read Of Chicago? |
think not. Taking this for granted,
/ il is only reasonable to believe that.
10 reading Of our wonderful city, the
student has learned much Of its noted
public institutions-its churches,
schoolhouses, elevators, court struc-
lures, board Of trade buildings, nam,
moth business blocks, grand hotels,
ETC., etc. However most Of this 10.
formation is so condensed that only a
very faint idea can be gotten Of the
Vastness Of the subjects presented, the
whole being portrayed merely in min>
iature, when nothing but fall aud
true picture could give q correct idea
Of any one Of the many great sttrac.
tions Chicago presents. The hotels
being among the most pleasing ieas
lures Of our wonderful city, aud in.
stitutions in which the general public
are much interested, | have concluded
to Jay before the coanties reaGers OF
the lEDGER q lewfacts about ode Of
these tipgni6eedf hosteIries--ihat one
being the Palmer House, situated cen
trally, on the east side Of S ate street.
corner Of Monroe. ~ is named after
lis proprietor, Hon. Potter P liner,
the ling hotel man Of the country,
and is managed" by Willis Howe,
who is credited with being tue peer
Of any man charged With the ouerous
duties OF catering TO the wants Of a
critical and veiy iastldious public.
such as patronize tue finest hotels
throughout the world. The best be
tel and railroad talent speak in ,he
highest terms Of praise OF tie Pal.
mer House conductors. And when
this is universally the case il Is no
wonder that the general travelling
public are loud 10 their enlOgies 81
the generous Treatment guests receive
at public resort as attractive in all
| It's appointments as the world affords.
| not excepting the magnificent estab-
hshments OF London, Paris. Vienna
Moscow, Berlin, OF Rome. The Pal
mer House is, really the wonder Of
all Chieago's wonderful attractions.
tits mammoth in size, ornate Of stuct-
ure, comnodious Of interior, and maf.
nlheent ~ all its appointments And
II is really FIRE proof" One might
strike q match in ITS remotest recess
and instantly The fact would be pro
claimed BY the fre,alarm indicator
even before the blaze Of the lucifer
would be fully developed. LIS meas,
ures OF protection against injury BY 6re
are OF me best kind, and fully up with
all its other arrangements for making
lts patrons supremely happy while Sex
lourning beneath the oaiopy of iis
loi,y aud expansive dome. OF all this.
the most exaoiing skeptio would be
convinced bya grand tour Of tho im-
monse establishment in COMPANY with
tie courtiv aud accomplished mana.
geT, Mr: Howe, OF the genial ranking
ohcer, Potter Palmer. They are never
80 happy as when unfolding 10 tho
public the glories Of the most glori-
oua hotel in this, or any other coun.
try. Tbs is no oyer-Wrought picture.
II IS true to the finest touches Of All
and the most progressive development
Of sclenee-from the marble creation,
q ;s 2 Powers q g the electric illumina.