Daily Republican., 1884-10-25
Let Ter From the wess.

Letter From the West.
| CHICAGO, ILL.,, Oct. 2i.-Messrs. Edi.
| tors This is q wonderful bust ness
city. The stores and hotels,I think are
the finest In the world Some Of them
are eight and ten, and with the base.
ments, eleven stories high. Every.
thing is on the 60 from morning until
late at night. The electric lights are
oil over the business part Of the city. Ii
is amazing to see the amount of bust
| ness done bere. We took drive out
to the stock yard 1t would surprise
our butchers to SEQ the thousands OF
cattle, hogs and sheep in this yard. A
gentleman kindly took US In one Of the
packing houses to see them kill and
dress the cattle and hogs. saw them
kill about three every minute. They
told me each house slaughtered from
3, 800 to 1000 per day, and there are
several of them. The work is all done
by machinery. The cattle are very fine,
, aud thousands Of them are slaughtered
every day. IL Is the greatest cattle, hog
and sheep market In the world. They
shoot the cattle before they bleed them.
The State Indu stiial Exposition Ia now
being held here 1t Is splendid affair.
1 4hO Alinihu hioC0 ~ ShE ~ -0bLls
pany Is erecting one of the finest
buildings in the city. 1t il ten stories
high and Is great credit to the city.
1t is impossible for me 10 give your
readers fair description of the extent
and greatness of this city by writing.
They can only know by seeing 1t for
themselves. 1 forgot to say that Chica.
60 has several beautiful parks and the
drives are splendid. Thousands OF
carriages of all descriptions turn out
every fine day. The population is be.
tween five and six hundred thousand
and about GOO trains of cars leave the
city every day. The shipping In lum'
her and grain Is very extensive. The
cable cars run through tho streets very
successfully and often draw four and
Ave cars at time.
The building Of the Board Of Trade
I which is of Vermont marble, occupies
one entire square Of ground, Is ten
stories high, with tower $50 feet high
1t will soon 5e finished and ready fol
Occupancy.
The town Of Pullman and the i'm
mense works which have been estab
lished there are located in Hyde Park
almost upon the shore Of lake Calumet
within 2l mi les of Chicago.
Thirty.five hundred acres Of land
have been acquired by the Association
having these interests in charge, O
which 308 acres are owned by the Pull
man Palace Car Company, 3,187 by thu
Pullman Land Association, and five by
the Allen Paper Car Wheel Manufactu
ring Company. Work WAS begun II
June two years ago and has been push
ed forward with marvellous rapidity
Two years ago the land was waste; to
day 1t Ii covered by immense factories
office store rooms, churches and thea
tres, while in immediate contiguity t.
the works are tn g future homes of hun
dreds of working men. The worl
which has already been completed Is o
n stupendous character, and yet Their
remains an immense amount 10 be done
1t is claimed by this company that the.
can build In their extensive work
from thirty to forty freight cars a day
ranging in price from $3.50 to $500 pe
lear.
We took the cars on last Thursda,
morning and rode across the State o
Indiana and on to Louisville, KY.
arriving at the hotel about 10 p. IN
Louisville is quite q thriving city, will
many splendid dwellings, hotels an,
stores, and is very beautifully situated
The State Fair and Exposition Is nov
being held in Louisville and is q grant
affair. was pleased to see such goot
land both in Indiana and Kentucky
We took the cars and rode twenty
seven miles to the small town o.
Lagrange, Oldham County, KY, on tn.
hunt Of Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel w
Rodman. Mr.. Rodman learned hi.
trade with II. II. Robinson, Esq, o.
Wilmington. Del, and nearly forty
years ago went to Kentucky to live.
was much pleased and gratified, for the
first gentleman we asked after We
arrived at Lagrange if he knew Mr.
Samuel w. Rodman. he looked at mt
and said: Eyes, he is my neigh Dor
and owns the farm adjoining mine"
asked him IL he would take US ont tt
his house, as he was q brother to my
wife. We got into his carriage, and or
we went for two and half miles. You
car imagine when we arrived how sur.
prised they were to see us. We had q
splendid visit, and they are rs nice a
family as l ever saw. Several Of hi
children lived about twenty miles off
and hearing we were. there, two sons,
with their children, arrived at the
1 hoo5O Oh ohtuAuoy nv - 49, W
married daughters rode some fifteen
miles in buggy and arrived sftel
dark, and on Sunday morning we had
the pleasure of meeting the whole
family, sixteen in all, which was a
very happy meeting Mr.. Rodman il
nicely fixed, owning q beautiful farm
of about two hundred acres, on which
he resides, and another one mile Off.
1t has been very dry in this part Of the
country, but his crops were good. He
showed me ears of corn that weighed
one and half pounds, and sweet pota-
toes three pounds each. He had sixty
hogs. sixty sheep and large number
Of horses and cows. His corn ia very
good. They do not use much manure,
the land being limestone land. The
many friends of MIR. Rodman will be
glad to hear that he IL doing 40 well.
Mr.. Lewis Zebley is his brother in-law
Respectfully, VIM. BRIGHT.