The Wilmingtonian., 1884-08-16
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| FOR Tie NILMlNGIONIAS
Highland Park is scarcely old enough to
have history; yet it is destined to have Il
career. Laid out and planned IN the most
extensive scale, we expect in this near future
a magnificent city. 1t is now an outgrowth
of the ovcr-populatcd Chicago, and forms
| the quiet homes for those business mcu,
who, tired of tho whirl and hustle of city
| life, seek retirement under the shadow of a
rural home If we might indulge in proph-
ecy, and with slight stretch Of the imagin-
alton, we see glorious future for this young
and ambitious city. Nature has smiled upon
this place, and deep rayines cut the surface
with varying regularity, thus relieving the
monotony OF a level country. The extensive
growth of forest trees gives luxurious
shade, and winding roads or streets are sure
to turn at some point where the blue cxpanse
of Lake Michigan greets tho eye with an
ever delightful surprise. But the city
proper, for, with population of eighteen
hundred it has u corp0ratcd government and
+, offices, is regularly laid out in streets and
avenues broad suough, and extending into
distant fields and pastures, to remind one
that perhaps Col. Sellers might have been
interested in the real estate Of this place.
Among the pers Jns who have appreciated
the rural beauty and the prospective pros
perity of Highland Park, is Mr.. Elisha GRAY,
the original inventor Of the telephone, and
who several years ago sought this delightful
place for the planting of the family tree. 1t
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communication was discovered while two
children were playing with battery in a
bath tub. On its being made known that
sounds had been produced under certain
conditions, the ingenuity of Mr. Gray was at
once aroused and his inventive genius pro-
duccd an instrument by which singing at
musical concerts in Chicago was reproduced
at his house and afterwards in the public
hall of Highland Park. This invention was
scarcely patented and made known to the
public before Mr., Bell improved upon it and
buying out the right to the original patent
of Mr.. Gray, produced our present telephone,
an instrument as useful and necessary to the
business and social community as the rail-
road or the postal systsm.
The residence of Mr., Gray is large and
cOmmodious with ample grounds which are
generously thrown open for carriages to
drive through. Shade trees, beds of flowers,
the artificial lake formed by the sinking of
artisan wells rustic Bridges and an extended
lawn, all show that money well expended is
not the root of all evil
The fine residences of lawyer Miller of
Chicago, Mr.. and Mrs. Starret, editors of |
the Weekly Ndgaziae, Mr.. Anderson, manu-
facturer of pressed bricks, and of many
other business men, are all fine in their
appearance, betokening wealth and taste.
Twelve years ago Mr. w. w. Boyington,
Chicago's architect and artist, removed to
his beautifl residence which he had pre-
viously erected at Highland Park, and gave
impetus to the building of these rural homes.
Lake Forest and Lake Bluff are but con-
limitations of the suburbs, tn ugh the former
place is too exclusive ever to become the
of the poor, since only those of
ample means are allowed to purchase lots or