Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-11-26
1000 YEARS HENCE.
Chicago's Ruins Explored and
Wonders Unearthed
The Board of Trade "Restored"-Wall Ad-
vertisements of City Politics and Theatre
cal Matters-The Mysteries Surround
ing So-Called "Base Ball."

A pensive poet away back in the
nineteenth century, named Bryant
wrote that
All that tread e..
The Globe are but handful to the tribes
That slumber 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 cites of
our own country back to the date of
their founding, and recall the names of
the now unknown heroes, whose eX-
plots made themselves and their cities
alike famous, we would undoubtedly
feel the same pride in the ruins of
America which the intelligent Greek
was won't to feel in the ruined great
ness of his own, we are told, marvellous
rountry The Americans. however,
have not been remarkable for their
records and we have but little to guide
us in our study of the annals of
the a:,sS which have preceded our
own. Bat this year of our Lord 3, SS5
has been very fruitful in scientific
discoveries; old Mother Earth has been
forced 10 yield some of her secrets, ard
it would seem as though it had been re-
served for the generation that is dying
out to penetrate, and not in vain, the
depths of enigmatical ruins; 10 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
successful eXcavating by our savant
anove the ruins OF our buried cities, and
to their unhoped-for dec phering of the
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 t almost TO perfection. The
period that it covers flourished in times
which nations the most jealous of their
antiquity do not, in their authentic rec
OrdS. pretend to have attained.
Tho work of htar,. oxnloro
ton which has been steadily going on
in the buried ruins OF Chicago for over
a 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 a few brief moments bv 4
most phenomenal couvu' 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 a well. the bottom of
which fell out, and upon examination
revealed the inside of the massive
white marble structure which has been
unearthel aud restored, and which
bears the inscriptions: Board of
Trade Prof. Henry Schliamann.
whose excavaiing efforts in Chicago
have been so successful, is 4 lineal de-
Scendant of the famous Schliemann of
the nineteenth century. who, two thou
sand Years ago. did such a grand and
noble work in Greece. But it is to the
records Of America that the intense eN-
citement Of the day is directed. and
the news which has reached us OF Prof
Schliemanr's rich find in tie ruins
OF Chicago would seem to indi-
cate that the glandest and most
valuable diScove V of all had Just
been made Chicago is undoubtedly
the most wonderful of American an
Equities, and no traveller can be disap-
pointed who has any acquaintance with
ancient history. Tine impression which
il gives of the actual presence of an
American city two thousand years ago
is so vivid and intense tina, it requires
but small effort of the imagination tn
place yourself among the multitudes
which once thronged the streets and
theaterS. and occupied its now voiceless
chambers The streets before you are
gencrsllv paved; some are we'll worn.
and Others. one broad avenue in par
fieular. in as good preservation as
though in use the day before. The
houses, many of them, extend in nm
broken lines, and in nearly every in
stance the doors are firmly closed. One
curious class of discoveries in Chicago