The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-06-11
CHICAGO CHAT.
FRAGMENTS oPTHE CONVENTION
The New Big Four In Mahones h""A
sIms's Position-yirginians In Chic"R'-
personaI Jtems-Nlahone's Sickness.

sims's Position irsinians In Chicago
per,onal l,ems-siahone's sickness.
from a staff Correspondent OF the Dispatch.I
CHICAGO, June Z, 1884.
II IL fat land between the Ohio ana TINS
Mace. The country opens upon you WIN
q panoramic succession OF bold hiiis AZ
most like those OF the Valley OF virginia,
hut as northwestward you go the rolIing
lands simmer down and finally lose tneln-
selves in the placid prairles, where there Is
scarcely enough undulation for drainage
The farms are rich; the county glorious
" prosperous; roads good. and generaliy
arcbed over with stone where they cross
small streams: fences, where wood was
lately abundant, OF the old Virginia worm
fashion, and further on west OF barbed
wire. Men and women look tough and &C,
tive. Horses and cattle are big ana
sturdy; people brusque and =" strictly busi-
ness"
Railroad eating-houses are satisfactory,
and Won can be served well at the lunch
counter or at the table. =,
German names fill half the sign-boards OF
roadside towns, and emigrant trans crowd
the tracks. It Is i've, pushing, rushing,
smashing country. Men make money;
buf they have to work for it. Lands are
prolific, but they cost deal OF money.
CHICAGO.
This flat as-a-pancake city is built on
Lake Michigan. and has about 100000 IN
habitants, and an almost limitless capital OF
cash. enterprise. and sci-assurance. New
York is Give but Chicago is oliver"
You have to move on quick here or you'll
he run over. Questions from strangers
are answered with snap that cuts you OIL
lust as you begin. Ii is cosmopolitan
CITY. Folks are here from everywhere.
They come and 20 like the railroad trains.
Rev. DR.. Henson. u native OF Fluvanna,
Va. said to me that he had been here three
wears, and could therefore call himself . an
old resident"
STREETS.
The business streets are grand. So are
many of the residential sections, and yet
excepting lumber and sand they have little
good building-material.
There are framed houses by the ten
thousand All have steep roofs, and they
are set gable-end TO the street. They are
TO be found on the lovelest streets. By
the side Of Il $4,000 brick dwelling you
are apt to see a one or twO-story neatly
painted frame-house that did not cost
S3. 900.
Tbe sandstone most used is soft, and
turns black from time and smoke.
The brick here would not be accepted
for anv house in Richmond. They are
rough, and about the color OF friedrich.
with occasional red-yellowish splotches,
and have to be either succeed or painted.
But as there is money here, brownstone,
marble, good brick, fine stone, &C., are
brought from other places.
The very best streets have been paved
with good Belgian blocks from the east;
sidewalks of them are made OF stone, mar
BILE. or concrete. SecOnd-class streets are
paved, as to the roadway. with wood.
They have gotten trees, stripped and bark
ed them, and sawed them into sections OF,
saw, eight inches. Our Mr.. Rick, il a con-
tractor here, would take one OF these blocks
and pave the streets, just as he would use
Belgian block. A-sawed end is laid up
permost.
So much pitch is used on these blocks
that that smell is ever present here. III
makes a North Caroinian feel at home ut
once.
There are miles and miles OF plank side
walks.
WATER FROM THE LANE.
The lake has been tunneiled mile or
two out from shore and crib sunk. whence
the water supply is secured. The water is
cleal and soft and pure enough.
Hotels abound. Half dozen OF the big
ores were packed by the cOnventionists, but
there were others up and down town Just
as good where Il delegate was rarely seen.
carr E-CARS
Street-car service is admirable. The Ca
BILE Company runs trains, generally three
long cars hooked together. You don't see
the cable at all. 1t is sunk beneath the
centre Of the track. You look down and
see an iron-faced opening-a sIot-about
one inch wide. The cable is in constant
motion, and nipper falls from the car,
drops in the slot, and grapples the wire.
To stop The car the nipper is loOsed
That is, the car lets 20 the running wire.
Speed Of SIX miles an hour is easily attained.
This is the thing we ought to have for
our hills, for Ninth street and for Main
street particularly.
There is no Disagreement OF the street by
it at all.
THE NEW BIG FOUR.
Mr.. Houston, who abandoned Malone
to vote for Clayton over Lynch (cOlored)
for temporary chairman, and on the third
and fourth ballots to vote for Blaine over
Arthur, is a resident of Roanoke county,
where he is In the iron business. He was
once a member of Congress from Penn
sylvania.
Colonel Sims is well known on account
of the Danville matter. He voted awhile for
II oOap anh then wont IN RI1inp
Mr.. Winfield Scott, OF Floyd. and Mr..
Stewart, member OF the House from Rich
mond county, voted for Blame all the time.
Messrs. Houston, Sims, Scott. and Stew
art all left Malone to vote for Clayton
(white) against Lynch (cOlored).
THE COLoRED DELEGATES.
hear myself asked. well, did you eat
with the niger delegates 2" and answer
"NO." But they did eat with me.
They. or some one for them, paid their
81 or S5 per day board, and that wiped out
the color-line entirely. The men whom
was most with at the Palmer House gene
rally went into the dinlng-room and sought
table where there were no colored persons
being served; but when a chair became
vacant l took notice the swallow.tail-
coated and white-neckted darky walters
took pleasure in putting coored man in
the vacant chair.
saw no instance at all Of a colored man
misbehaving.
Senator Bruce and wife we've at the Pal
mer House. He is not as light as she. She
is the color Of Spaniard, and has the min
imum African physiological developments.
The story was told in the dining-room that
Bruce went into barber-shop where the
BARRIERS, white and colored, in a spirit OF
fraternity, had agreed that colored custom
ers should he waited on by colored men.