Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-08-12
LEIGH.
THE WEEKS REVIEW OF CURRENT
TOPICS IN CHICAGO.
Cold summer Nights Base Bail hsn church
H,ip.r-The stock fards-BreNiiies
aud Oddi les.


Special correspondence of the Gazette
Chicago, August 7.--Summer sports /
and pastimcs are the order Of The day (
in this region, but matters In social /
way are rather duh. Just at present I
il i. too cnol t. enjoy picnics but not /
cold enough for skating parties. though
the chilly, clear nights are suggestive
of Jack FIo.t.
business is not dnll, in ugh it IS
about the dullest season of the year.
Was not the Sullivan Slade glove
slugging match in New York dis
graceful in his day and age? think
81.
NOVEL WAY or RAISING cHURCH
FUNns
Last week there was II match game
of base ball at the Uuion grounds. for
the b neht of church repair fund
The players were all heavy weights,
ranging from 2l0 to 2T3 pounds, nnd,
while the gam, was more ludiCrJus
than expert, yet it attracted Il large
audience, aud the net proceeds which
went tn the church were about three
hundred dollars such means Of rails
ing church funds are destined 10 be.
come more popular than the time.
worn methods of fairs, festivals aud
sociables. Tnp base tall plan is entire
/ ly summer affair, OF course, but that
/ and similar modes of raising money,
has the advantage of having fixed
( piire. 1t dues not "cost anything to
get in, but everything to let out"
ARCTIC ATMOSPHERE.
We are now enjoying regular Octo-
/ Der weather, and the coolness of the
atmosphere is somewhat interterin.
with the attendance ut the nluns'
watering plnc,s within n radiu, OF !,
few hundred miles flou here. People
can stay in Chicago AID keep quite
cool enough without going To eXpen-
( sive resorts. The fact Is the weather
is entirely too cool ut nights, for pleas
/ ure. There s.unshine IN abundance,
hut the lays OF Old sol do not seem Ia
be very intense, particul trly when the
chilling breeZes set In nom the north,
or from the lake.
cIICAGo's STOCK YARDS.
No visitor should leave Chicago and
vicinity without seeing two wonderful
institutions---the stock yards and
the magic city Of Pullman. Al thu
former place and at the latter as Well
there are To be seeu sights such as ar,
lnowh,rN else. AT a place like Ar
mour Il Co 5 packing house the visitor
can witness them taking III,
! s1ueal out OF pies at the rate ol Zoo,
, pen day in the busy season, and sc,
Texas cattle being converted into
dressed eeeN and canned beef, at Tin,
rate OF about 500 per day at present, al
} under one roof. Thele are those who
having read descriptions OF the won
d a
ptdiiou with which the work IL pros
ecuti II In some ut these uannuutl
packing houses, IMAGINE that theya
/ East have Il fair idea Of II, hui il /
something that m 81 te-Aern 10 lac ap
precieteh; and, once seen, can never b,
= forgotten TeXss pc tple G ,n hardly zap
+ preciate the statement hat there az,
received here Ia a single day - mann
~ 6J,UN 10 81 OuO hogs, but most COW
boys eau appreciate tue iiumcusity %
? tbs grehest live stuck market ia Ia
3, wlr!u, from tn fact that on many &C
clstons there lrtve been rece,ved her,
; in a day 10 CO. to Is COZ cattle. ON Ne-
= terday there were 10 81 receive I
: tWh.ca, with the cattle that arfiJ,d to
iatr tor safe on SATURDAY. 5 market
made Il total ot ahom ~ o ~ cattle IL
| tie peas iur salient unc time.
MAGIC CITY or PULLMAN.
= AZ Pullman there are Guny Thug
4 tor visitors 80 wonder over. ihr Ar
cade, where model little theatie
, groceries. h rlware. and many o,he
kinds ot stores, together witt, bank
} b lizard pNrior, anu uaiiy lrufcsSiUsa
0 and business offices are al
enclosed under oAe shelte,
the water tower, over tw,
, hundred feet high, where the water /
= pumped O. an immense reservoir
! whence Is had ample pressure la calr,
the water over the city. the water
works, the COri,ss engine which IA,
the naeninefy go the Centennial ~
f. isIO the Alien paper ear wheel works
| and the vast institution whence com
, tie worid-fanled Pullman ears, al
th'~e AMI many nofe things 60 he set,
: At this wond riul city, are calculate
! GO 81 g tac viSilaf au impression 40
/. s,ne 10 he h,rg itlen, Tue IT. eets ar,
, all b3uieVaIGcd, Qitiiiciai aud natura
lakes are prvscnt "a every hand {,
ivnd b,aliy, br az park ways Wild
cln-ssiy etapped turf and a y o,iisiln q
shrilur, Young elm tree. and Il aver,
skiit TIE envss, ana tVery iittlc Will,
oHe eon.vs a. public square wholiA
dsv,'t,d To- bs4nIy and the arc of land
-cape gard lisSs ~ ~ hiusA In m,
4 Place ~ 0f hrigk, and Tie architecture
enin iii section occupied hg the
Z most humble lablraS Il nniqus and
sufficiently varied Ia be very pleasing
O. the eye. Every lN a Is Kept in
fanltlsss order hy men employed FOE
the purpose, and the inh. bitants are
not permitted TO throw Il elr garbage
proRicuously ia the alleys, AN ash
wagon goes the rounds every day Or so