The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-16
MEMPHIly AT CHICAGO.
RAPID RAMBLISGS AROUND THE
GARDEN CITY.
Good Time at the State Fair-An
Exciting Raee-Other
Topics.
IcoerrsPoynrycr OF TIE APPEAL.


IcoREEsPOypEYcE OF THE APPBAL.l
CHICAGO, September IS. i have
been diving in this nstatorium Tor
several days aud desire to dot you my
impressions, it being my tirSt visit
here. The stranger is impressed
readily, for all other Western cities are
unlike this lone, j. e., Chicago is dis
Similar to them in many features.
First is the momentum of every Eaov-
ing thing. 1t goes faster here than
elsewhere, and there is nothing slow
about the city. When l am informed
that the city was built on morsss
and seeing it kfs assumed suCh gigan-
tic proportions ia these forty years,
what would il have been if The
founders of it had had firm founda-
tion2" London, Pekin and your New
Yorks must stand from under, for
with its rapid growth (only forty square
miles now what will it be in twenty
five years to come? Think OF it, the
streets in the business center being
filed in to depth Of ten feet, and
paved in the best manner the art of
street paving admits of aud finished as
smooth as those of ancient Athens.
The buildinl are heavenward and are
massive. Among the thousand Of
them which causes one to wonder
with amazement on looking at them,
there is one now ia course of compile
tioo, being built by merchant prince,
which covers whole square, to be
thirteen stories, and the cost to be
about $3,O00,000 when finished. The
bows run their elevators at such speed
that it ierke the breath out OF one
while on them. Ia fact everything is
on tie swift go, and fellow "loatiog"
in the streets moves like he would II
he was going to fire in Memphis.
: The business men are not wordy, and
are very choice in the use of their ex-
pressions relating to business. No
preface or interludes. 1t certainly is
one OF the best places to forget God in
in this land, yet / am told there are
Christians here. Events crowd and
fly by SO fast that they are scarcely re-.
membere6. The Board Of Trade is q
curiosity to strangers. Stand upon
the gallery in that building and look
down on the yandemonium below and
you would think every man was
lunatic.
The State Fair has just closed. 1t
brought together the finest cattle,
horses, sheep, hogs and animals in the
United States. The 2rounts, rome
six miles from the city, were filled
daily by multitudes, ranging from
10,0U0 to 1900 people. The trotting
horses were numerous. The cele-
brated Oliver K was on exhibition.
This horse is just from Hartford,
where he won the great $4,000 stake
over picked field of fast trotters
This horse belongs here now, having
lust been purchased by Mr.. Charles
Schwartz. The other trotter YVES
Clemmie g., fast end good mare
with a record way down in the teens.
These tro tsis were handled, the
former by Budd Doble, and the latter
by John Splan. Clemmie G. had the
pools in the first heat. They went to
the quarter pole in 0:35I seconds, the
mare leading. He!e Oliver X. at
tempted to pass the mare, but Splan
sent her so fast to the half that he
reached it half length in the lead in
los. Around the turn the pair came
like double team; turning into the
straight their noses were on line,
with Olemmie G. apparently gaining
little, when at the dis ance stand che
suddenly broke, and Oliver X. passed
under the wire in the fast time CT
2:17i. The track was heavy.
The display OF agricultural imple'
ments in the pavilion vas immense.
Everything to lessen the labor Of
mans hands on the farm was there
exhibited. Every device to assist man
and beast that could be conceived of
was on exhibition, and the masses OF
machinery was bewildering. The fair
has been a great success.
The places OF amusement have had
no notable attractions this week.
McVicker's is the favorite place Of
amusement with the dilettante and
solid Chicsgoan. John Brougham's
comedy of A Cure for the Blues has
been presented nightly to very mod
crate sized audiences. This is model
temple of Thespis in its construction.
The orchestra is supurb.
Circulating among the wholesale
dealers and manufac urers, and calling
their attention TO the trade OF Tennes-
see and the Missii sippi Valley, | am
surprised that they know little about
it, and, what is more, care less Of it..
Chicago might do greater business
with Memphis and its surrounding
country if the proper effort was made
to become better acquainted; but we
can stand it ii they can. The fruit
growers OF West Tennessee and Miesis-
sippi will continue to FIRE their crate
of fruit here, because it is a market
that never gets glutted. Outlets and
consumption by the city will always
give it precedence over its rivals IS a
fruit market This is well known to
fruit shippers in West Tennessee.
Mayor Harrison has made a call for
the charitably disposed people OF the
city to meet in the council chamber
Monday, September 18th, to devise
WAYS and means to materially assist
the Charleston sufferers and those
people of Texas who are suffering by
the drouth. He says when Chicago, in
1871, was in distress, generous world
came to its aid without waiting for an
invitation, and he now thinks Chicago
should sustain its reputation for graft
tude aud generosity by succoring these
distressed people. HIP