The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-03-01
CHAPTER vI1.-cohtinued.

CHAPTER vn.-Cohtinued.
In less than twenty years Omaha, Denver
Kansas City, Minneapolis will be so many
Chicagos. Cincinnati, st. Louis, Louisville,
will rival her in FIVE
Chicago is, in my eyes, the very type of the
American city, the most striking example Of
what Jonathan calls "go-aheadism.
The streets are twice as wide as the Partisan
boulevards; the houses of business are eight,
ten and twelve stories high. Michigan ave-
nue. is seven miles long; the numbers of the
houses run up to 5000 and something. The
city has parks, lovely drives by the lake shore,
statues, including splendid one of Abraham
Lincoln, public buildings imposing in their
massiveness, fine theatres and churches, luxu-
rious clubs, hotels inside which four good
sized Partisan ones could dance a quadrille.
etc., etc.
Michigan avenue and Prairie avenue are
extremely handsome Picture to yourself the
avenue Of the Bots de Boulogne, prolonged
for seven miles in astraight line, and imagine
up at night, or when the trees, with which
both these grand roads are planted, are in all
their fresh spring beauty.
In these avenues, American eccentricity
has been allowed free play. The houses are
built in all imaginable styles of architecture:
some of them are Florentine, some English,
others Moorish, others a mixture of all three;
others again look like Greek temples, whilst
here and there you come across what looks
like little Gothic church, and close along
side medieval castles in miniature, or imita-
ton mosques; some have the look of villas in
the Paris suburbs, some have been modelled
upon Swiss chalets, others upon the residence
of some pasha on the borders Of the Bos-
phorus. There are styles for all tastes
The American may. be eccentric, or what
you will, but he is never monotonous
Enter one of these houses, and you will see
handsome furniture, not only rich, but in
good taste.
was not astonished to find Chicago society
genial, polished and well read Riches beget
the taste for literature and arts; perhaps one
day it will beget the taste for simplicity.
You find here still more warmth and much
less constraint than in the east. You feel
land Puritanism. No frigidity here; people
give free play to their sentiments. If had
to name the most sympathetic of my Ameri-
can audiences, the warmest and promptest to
seize the significance of O look or gesture,
should name the one which / had the honor
Of addressing in Chicago.
At Z in the morning every man is astir and
at work, whether he be millionaire or poor
clerk. Only the idle are outside the pale of re-
spectability in Chicago
do not think it is possible for a European
to imagine the activity which reigns in
Chicago without seeing it,
''You will soon be invcnting," said to a
resident, "a machine that will take live
rabbit at one end and turn out chimney pot
hat at the other"
1--WE have done something very like it
already he replied.
And next morning he took me to see the
famous pig killing and pork packing premises
Of Philip Armour & Co.
Picture to yourself a series of rooms con-
Meeting In the first, 5000 pigs day are
killed; in the second, they are scraped as
they come out of a caldron of boiling water;
in the third, the heads are cut OFF; and SO on,
and so on. The process is somewhat sickening,
and will not enter into any more details At
the endof the establishment the poor pigs are
presented to you under the forms of bacon,
sausage, gelatine, etc. The various processes
take place with all the rapidity of conjuring.