San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-06-25

| ceases to be ''vurry, vurry Amurracan." If
| you think yourself in England as you walk
along the streets, the illusion bee ONES COM
plete when you hear the well bred people
speak.
All the anecdotes toll in America on the
subject of Boston are satires upon the pre-
sumptuous character of the Bostonian, who
considers Boston the center Of the universe.
Here is one out of the many hundreds
have heard.
A Boston man has lost his vile AS soon
as telephone communication is established
between that city and Paradise, he rings and
cries:
"Hello!"
Hello" from the other end
as that you, Artemisiap
Yes, dear"
"Well, my love, and how do you like it up
there's"
"Oh, it is very nice, of course-but it isn't
Boston"
Washington is the sole American city which
has monuments that can strike the European
with admiration for their beauty. The Cap
itol the government buildings, the museums,
built in the midst of handsome gardens, all
arrest the eye of the visitor.
The Capitol, 75l feet long, built of white
marble, with a superb dome and majestic
flights of steps, is one of the grandest, most
imposing looking edifices in the world. The
souvenirs attached to it and the treasures
which it contains render it dear to the Aneri-
cans; it is a monument which recalls to their
Dlinds the glories of the past and keeps alight
the flame of patriotism.
A general who served through the great
civil war, told me he had seen strong men,
soldiers brought up in remote states, sit down
and weep with strong emotion at seeing tho
Capitol for the first time.
Washington is wholly given over to pei!
tics. When congress is not sitting, it is dead
when congress is sitting, it is delirious.
Little or no commerce is done
Philadelphia, formerly the capital of the
United States, is a city of eight or nine hun
dred thousand inhabitants, and is built, like
New York, in parallelograms Its town hall
is, next to the Capitol at Washington, the
finest edifce in America. l do not know
Ia,
unless it be the Bots de Boulogne in Paris
The alleys of this park, if put together, would
cover about sixty miles in length Seen after
New York or the busy western cities. Phila-
dalpbia strikes one as slow, even monotonous
except on the Clover club annual banquet
evening
This Quaker city Of quiet streets and sober
people is, however full of all kinds of manu-.
factories.
On the shores of Lake Michigan there stood
a town, built Of wood, and peopled by some
hundred thousand inhabitants This was
called Chicago
On the evening Of Oct s, 1871, a COW that
an Old woman was milling in a barn kicked
over lamp and set fire to the structure The
flames spread, and on the morrow of that ter
rihle night the whole city was level with the
ground. The Chicago people of today show,
as curiosity to the visitor, the only wooden
house which escaped the flames.
At the present time this city the living and
gigantic emblem of the phoenix, stands re-
built in hewn stone, and holding 100000 in
habtants
Such is America
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 quadriIle
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 straight line, and imagine |
the effect, the beautiful vista, when this is Lit
up at night, or when the trees. with which |