River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-07-04
A NEW CHICAGO.


The Garden City Annexes Five of Her
Prosperous suburb, and Takes Rank as
Second Among American Cities In Point
of Population, Having Now over 1.IO0,-
600 Inhabitants-In Area She Leads the
World, Covering over ia square Miles
OF Territory.
CHIcAso, July Saturday was great
lay for Chicago In the first place the new
,ity directory carne out and showed that
here wero over 600 900 people inside the
Did limits, and in the next place all of Chi
'agos suburbs annexed themselves to her
With her voice and consent Hyde Park
sith an area of IS square miles and its
population OF u 900 gave majority of 2, 055
favor OF annexation; Lake, with 50
square miles OF territory and 5000 in
labitants, gave majority of 5O4; Lake
View, with IA square miles and 50 900 rop-
1lation, gave a majority of 5O4; jefferson,
with 81 square miles and 10000 popula-
ion, gave 69j majority and a part of
Cicero, having an area of 225
square miles and population of
Loo, gave $40 majority. This makes the
iOtal area within the limits of Chicago,
l14.75 square miles. which is A. more
.han Philadelphia and 1873 > more than
New York. The added population gives the
Garden City over 100, 600 inhabitants The
great cities OF the world rank to-day as fol-
lows: London, 100000; Paris 1900, coo;
New York, $4,000 Berlin, 10000; Chi
eago, l,200,000
In the city there was practically no OPP
position to annexation, and when the vote
was counted up every one was surprised to
ind that 1900 votes had been cast. No
dcket-peddlers were to be seen, and the
scenes at the polls were without excite
ment The vote for annexation was IA, 1872;
against, $50; majority in favor of annexa-
ton, l4G93
The number of little towns which were
gobbled up Saturday is prodieious. Among
them are Oakland, lakewood, Kenwood
Cleverville, Hyde Park Center, Egandale,
Pullman, Kensington South Chicago Cole
hour, Hegewisch, Park Manor, Riverdale
Cummings, Englewood Auburn Park
Argyle, Edgewater, Ravenswood, Irving
Park Moreland, Central Park and the
Union Stock Yards
In annexing Hyde Park the city adopts
the biggest village in the world in extent
and population, and gains. among other
things, Lake Calumet and harbor and fifty
miles of navigable river; water-works pay
500 600 profit annually; n tunnel one mile
long; vast manufacturing interests, in
Guiding the Pullman works, and the I'LL
nois Steel Company's PLAINTIFF largest in
the world; an excellent system of severed
and improved streets in the north end OF
Hyde Park. There is a bonded debt of
.434, COO and school debts of $3.50, 600.
Chicago is now bounded by Lake Michi-
gan and the State of Indiana on the east
One Hundred and Thirty -eigth street ON the
south, Fiftieth street on the west and the
town lines OF Maine, Niles and Evanston
on the north Inside her limits she has
two large nayigable lakes, Lake Calumet
and Lake Hyde. and divides with the
State of Indiana part of another-Wcf lake
She has besides Chicago river, two greater
streams in the LttlA and Grand Calumet
rivers. She has at South Chicago one of
the finest harbors in the world, whittier
will drift in a short time her great coal and
lumber industries, and which within the
limits will become a grand industrial CEN
ter
The annexation will be completed as
soon as the election commissioners declare
the result of the election next week. The
jurisdiction of Chicago win extend over
the annexed territory as soon as the vote is
declared The suburban policemen and
ufSlnen VIII also as result OF UndU uecia-
ration become part and parcel of the city
police and fire department School teach
ers elected during the last week will also
be placed on the city pay rolls Other
suburban employees who are useful and
capable will be retained in the service of
the enlarged city.
Chicago under the new order of things
will have thirty-fou wards. ten in addition
to the present number. distributed as fol-
flows Hyde Park, 8; Lake, 3; Lake View
,; jefferson, l. Cicero, l. The wards will
doubtless be apportioned without delay, so
that the new territory may be adequately
represented.
All of the great cities of the world owe
their present high rank to annexation
London's original limits contain only 100, 900
people today. New York, Philadelphia and
Boston have gobbled up their suburbs sys-
tematically.
The following table shows the present
areas approximately of the cities named,
sc -- ooIsti O. them. notably Philadelphia hav.
ing benefited by the annexation of suburbs: