Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-11-19
1000 YEARS HENCE.
Chicago's Ruins Explored and
Wonders Unearthed.
The Board of Trade "'Restored"-YaH Adj
vertisements of City Politics and Theatre
cal Matters-The Mysteries Surround
ing So-Called .siase Ball"

A pensive poet away back in the
nineteenth century, named BRYANT,
wrote that
All that tread
The Globe are but a handful to the tribes
That sumber in its BOSOM
We can form but little idea, even from
the estimates at hand, of the numbers
and characteristics of the human race
in past ages. 1t is no more easy task
to conjecture the number and import
ance OF the buried cities which exist in
every part of the earth. If we could
but trace the history OF the cities of
cur own country back to the date of
their founding, and recall the names of
the how unknown heroes, whose ex-
plrits made themselves and their cities
alike famous, we would undoubtedly
feel the same pride in the ruins OF
America which the intelligent Greek
was wont to feel in the ruined great
ness of his own. we are told, marvellous
country. The Americans, however,
have not been remarkable for their
records, and we have but little to guide
us ID our study of the annals of
the ages which have preceded our
own. But this year of our Lord >, $50
has been very fruitful in scientific
discoveries; old Mother Earth has been
forced 10 yield some OF her secrets, and
1t would seem AS though it had been re-
served for the gen ration that is diving
out to penetrate, and not in vain, the
depths of enigmatical ruins: to olsen
tomb from them the past, and to re-
store to it the real aspect that once it
wore, along with part of its lost chro-
nology. Thanks to the acquisitions of
modern science, for whose progress the
genius and the blood of America have
helped to clear the way; thanks to the
success ul eXcayating by our sayant
above the ruins OF our buried cities, and
to their unhoped for dec phering of the
records, rich detail, that have been
unearthed, through which the Ameri-
cans of twenty centuries ago seem to
converse with the men of our own time
thanks to this, the historian can at
length present to us testimony certain
and reliable regarding them, and, al
though the idea of again securing the
thread, a hundred times broken, of
American tradition, must be once for
all abandoned, we have it in our power
at last to reconstruct the most brilliant
part OF it almost to perfection. The
period that it covers f1ouris:,ed in times
which nations the most Jealous Of their
antiquity do not, in their authentic rec
Ords, pretend to have attained.
The work of subterranean explora-
ton which has been steadily going on
in the buried ruins OF Chicago for over
century has not yet enabled us to
form any accurate notion OF the nature
and extent OF The catastrophe, hut it is
clearly evident that the city was swal-
lowed up in few brief moments by
most phenomenal cOnvu sion of nat
ure. OF the discovery of the tomb of
Chicago, there are various accounts.
That which is the most credited relates
to the sinking of well, the bottom OF
which fell out, and upon examination
revealed the inside of the massive
white marble structure which has been
unearthed aud restored, and which
bears the inscriptions: Board of
Trade Prof. Henry Schlie mann,
whose e,:cavating efforts in Chicago
have been so successful, is lineal de-
scendant of the famous Schliemann of
the nineteenth century, who, two thou
sand years ago, did such grand and
noble work in Greece. But it is to the
records Of America that the intense eX-
element Of the day is directed. and
the news which has reached us of Prof
Schliemann's rich find in the ruins
OF Chicago would seem to indi-
cate that the glandest and most
valuable discovery of all had just
been made. Chicago is undoubtedly
the most wond rful of American an
hquities, and no traveller can be disap-
pointed who has any acquaintance with
ancient history. The impression which
it gives of the actual presence of an
American city two thousand years ago
is so vivid and intense that it requires
but small effort of the Imagination to
place yourself among the mul, itudes
which once thronged the sheets and
theaters. and occupied its now voiceless
chambers. The streets before you are
gensrally paved; some are well worn,
and Others, one broad avenue in par
tlch:ar, in as good preservation as
though in use the day before The
houses, many of them, extend in I'M
broken lines, and in nearly every in
stance the doors are firmly closed. One
curious class of discoveries in Chicago
consists of tn: advertisements upon the
dead walls, watch relate to city politics
AMI theatrical affairs. Candidates had
the biushing impudence to bespeak sup
port for themselves from their friends,
and the play-Eouses announced in bright
colo!.s on huge posters the coming at
fractions. proving that up to the year
1885 the show-printers had the bulge on
the press for thsatrical advertising. ALI
the observations which have been made
from time to time, however, on the discov-
cr.es made among the ruins of Chicago
are as naught, when we consider the
opportunity which is now given us for
Speculation and study by the great
'Had' iuss recorded by Prot Schls.