Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-08
THE GARDEN CITY.
Viewing Chicago NTH a Critics
Eye.
Its Mintry Climate, Edsnic Parks
and Good whisky.
Zeal Estate---Ths City Spreading
Too Fast.
A Glimpse at The Greatest Wheat
Market in the World.
Nef Cyrrsspondsncc Of he Regts,er.

gave notes Ofthe trip of our party from
Wheeling to Chicago. This letter shall
cover at least part of our pilgrimage
from Chicago To st. Paul, even il it
doesn't lie over all of it.
We stayed in Chicago two whole
days before the landlord asked for his
bill, and some of the items of our sojourn
there may not be without interest to
your readers. Our landlord expressed
an Interest in some of the items of our
sOjOurn.
The Climate OF Chicago
Is very pleasant in summer, but in win
ter II Is extremely rigorous, and has 3
strong inclination in the same direction
on the cooler days of spring and fall.
The excessive humidity OF the air, con-
Sequent on the proximity of the city
TO the lake, is what causes the cold 10
be 80 penetrating. As showing that
moisture has Very much TO do with
the sensations of the other animals in
cold weather as Well as with those of
more delicate man, 1 may mention the
following observations: lwasat the Chi
cago stock Yards on one raw day last
winter, when the thermometer stood at
Is To 20 degrees above zero, and saw fat
cattle huddled together in the pens,
with their backs bowed up, shivering
with cold, and generally the picture of
discomfort. a short time afterwards |
was in Dakota and Montana, aud was
interested To notice how differently the
cattle looked and acted in that dry air,
although the temperature was five to
ten degrees below zero. There they
seemed full of life and, with heads and
tails up, the Ouly effect the cold APP
peared to have was to make them more
risky than usual. They were evidently
not suffering. y similar difference was
noticeable In the way the members OF
the human family in the two regions
acted. In Cuicago's damp air the cold
depressed peoples spirits and caused
them 20 suffer as il does in your Ohio
river valley, while q far greater degree
of cold in Dakota and Montana eau Sed
no real discomfort.
ChfeaSo's Parks
Oneof Chicago's glories is her system
of public parks. These are six I'm num-
Der, have an aggregate area OF about
two thousand acres and are connected
Iy bOulevaris $50 feet wide, extending
around three sides of the city. These
ho,II.ysris, with q drive on the lake
shore, furnish a continuous roadway
of more than thirty miles. Lincoln
Park, i'm the northern part OF the city,
fronts on the lake and Is connected oy
boulevard three anu One-halt miles long,
with Humboldt Park on the west. Au-
other boulevard runs from the latter To
Central Park, anu another from that
lark To Douglas Park. From Douglas
Park a boulevard extends nine miles 10
a mark At the south of the city whlch
in turn is connected with South Park
on the lake shore just outside OF the
southern limits of tue city.
LineuIn Park
j. the most attractive among the Chi-
cago parks and is rs delightful local
ity as ever - poor mortal, weary III
body or mind, sought on hot uay. lls
picasant walks AMI drlvewayS, It's Oeau-
tiful shade tree: and green lawns, us
lovely flower beds made anu arranSeu
after tasteful and ingenious designs, us
green mounds of hlliockS, It's winning
E.ths leading TO dells where springs OF
ST,,ter clear. pure aud cold, send crys-
tsI streams tT.eHling down over moss
covered rocks, its rustic seats anu
bridges, its artificial lakes from whose
sides grassy slopes and wooded banks
rise with picturesque irregularity, the
sandy beach where the beautiful blue
expanse of grand Lake Michigan IS seen
stretching AS far as the eye can reacn
and where the waves come ripping In,
all combine to make
Another Eden.
70 help out the parallel, there IS goou
collection OF animal curioSltieS IN the
Mark. and Mr.. and Mrs. Adam are rep
resented by number of their descend
ants. OF course the apple tree and the
serpe Mt are not there. We don't wan
any trouble to come in that way Sec
ond time. no.
BYRON would never have sighed, ION
for a lodge in some vast wilderness, VIII
one fair spirit for my minister" wneI
he wanted TO get out of the city III no
weather, if he had had such q place a!
LINCOLN Park TO flee to. He would have
had to bring his spirits with him though
ma nothing of the kind is allowed to b.
sold in the park.
A Wheeling gentleman, who has
travelled much in the old world, say
that no park he saw in Europe could b
pronounced to be
More Elegant or More Attractive
than Lincoln Park OF Chicago.
This park has an area OF 80 acres
The churlish signs, Keep of the grass,
"SlO fine for walking on the grass,
have always been - hair IN my cake
in visiting many beautiful parks. Suct
sipps are not to be seen in Lincoln Park
People spread their lunches on the graS
undrr the trees, and children race ant
roll over it and the extra harm uon'
IN the mark Is not apparent, while TIT
Greater GOOD accomplished in the WAY
of gaining health and happiness by
such free use, it is easy to understand
The Chicago parks are not dependen
on annual or other appropriations 10
their support, but in pursuance OF
standing law Of the State, special taxes
are collected in the city each year anC
kept as separate funds for their repair
and Improvement.
A Big Sign.
If the Pharisees and Sadducees shoulC
90 bOtheriDg around Chicago in thesI
search for sign, they would probably
find one big enough TO suit them ut the
corner of State and Madison streets. Ii
belongs to w. Il. Clapp 4 Co., cos
-. 500, and Is immense, both as regard:
size and ornateness.
Tom Edison's Light.
Haverly's theatre is now Illuminated
throughout with the Edison 1ncandes'
cent Light. Several hundred of the
lights are used, and to see them, such
a large number together, Is alone worth
the price of admission for the first visit.
Each Ii yht or lamp gives small, soft,
ST. adv light of the brightness Of an or
binary gas jet. The lamp consists of a
pesr-shsped, hollow glass object about
four and one-half inches in height, ex-
bausteu of air, into which is sealed a
fiIsmept of carbouized bamboo, slightly
thicker than q horse hair. A current
of electricity being passed through this
filament, it becomes iDcandescent and
emits q beautiful, soft, steady white
light. As the carbon Is In - vacuum it
can consume no oxygen and hence this
light cannot vitiste the air, while 8
common gas burner, on the other hand,