The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1884-10-08

A recent local coasts gives Chicago in
rouSa numbers $500 population for
ISS4. In 1871 the United States census
gave $1,000 ss the then population, The
incrVeSe IN the four years i l4N,00O. or
very reariy y per cent. or I per cent per
wear Nothing oct q the ordinary way
has interviewed 10 cause this astounding in
creaSe. In fact. for the last year and
half business has been less sctive than
usual AZ Chicago. ard vet the increase
averages higher than for the extracriina-
rily lively decade from 1910 10 1881, when
the increase Was less than I per cent q year.
IL the ratio q lncreSSe continues the same
a since lSSl, up to June, 1890, the popa-
lation Of Chicago VII then be 9l&oO0- a
growth of $1,000 II twenty years,
In the history Of cities, ancient and
modern. there i nothing equal 70 this
And the expansion N trade and wealth has
been even greater than n population But
this Is only one OF is phenomenal eh&rac-
teriSsics. IL appears that Chicago Is the
most Cosmopolitan city IN the world in its
inhabitants. Not ons-f fourth Of them sre
Of American bIrth-but little over one
fifth. Planted a Il Is, right IN the he6rt
Of tie continent. 3 thousand miles frum
the sea On one SIDE and two thousand i've
hundred On the other, nearly four out Of
every I'VE q It's people are o. foreign birth.
representing every race. color and nstion
n the world Paris. Is the center Of fash
ION taste. wealth and pleasure in Europe.
has foreign population not exceeding
p per cent Of the whole. Berlin still 4
lower percentage who are not German. In
Chicago the foreign percentage rises TO
about Is OF the whole The Germans pre-
dominate; the Irish come next. and after
the IRISH the Scandinayians. Chicago has
become the Ultimate distributing point Of
more than twU-thirJis Of the yearly irnmi-
grafton from Europe. They land at New
YORK. bur proceed direct 10 the great West
srn center. where they await the oppor-
cUrity Of final choice Of hCme-in Hi
nos. Indiana, Michigan. Kansas. WiSeOn-
SIN Nebruska, lows, Eastern Missouri.
D1kota, Colorado, New Mexico, Minnesota.
N1u-ana, Wyoming, Utah, and even IN the
Pacific States and Territories and IN Mani
tUba; for more enigrants reach the Great
Lone Land by way Of Chicago than by
all other routes.
Another curiosity OF Chicago i her daily
1eEA-- - ~ l--etA kAAlAA>A A4LAE
columns IN the course Of year than any
three papers IN New York; and their local
market reports from day to day are more
elaborate than those OF any paper IN the
great Atlantic seaboard metropolis. In an
article written by Stephen A. Douglas and
published IN the Democratic Rsrisc lust
thirty years ago It was predicted that New
Orleans would not long be able to hold her
position a. the first commercial city Of the
Mississippi valley. that no city on the
great river would permanently hold that
place; that ST. Louis must BY and BY
yield to some city planted on one of the
great lakes that the chances favored
Chicago as such city. and finally that
there would come d time when the region
between the AIleghAnies and the Rockies
would build up j city that would become
the financial and commercial center Of
that vast domain and Outrun New York
and Philadelphia IN population Douglas
died before this prophecy had fairly taken
shape for realization. But now what was
treated Is q dream Is taking on the appear,
znce Of q fact that may be possibly worked
out even IN the present century. or at any
rate. before the national debt Is all due
and redaeued-> T. C6rg1icis.