Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-03-04
BIG AND WICKED CHICAGO.
Light Shades In the Picture.
Talking and Doing Go Together.


~ and Matters Musical. including the
Apollo club, Aus der one, and Patti.
From on Chicago stan Correspondent
As have remarked before, if remem-
Der rightly, Chicago is desperately wick
ed city. And it seems to be growing worse
instead of better, if the number and bold
ness of crimes committed are to be taken
as criterion. Why, only a few evenings
since, Edwin Walker, a prominent lawyer,
was sand-bagged on aristocratic Michigan
boulevard at a little past seven in the even
ing. Fortunately passer-by saw him fall
and rushed to his rescue, and frightened
away his assailants, who were afterwards
arrested and locked up Next day, in an
anarchist meeting, one of the leaders re-
marks that men must be fools indeed who
would go hungry when there were plenty
of Edwin Walkers in Chicago, and Lucy
Parsons appeals to her audience to doaway
with the existing order of society, and re-
fuse to allow the rich to live in idlenesS by
the labor of the poor 1t is needless to
add, perhaps, that it is seldom the IdLorinq
poor who listen to and applaud speakers of
this sort
Over against the above paragraph
would set this statement, viz, that proba-
bly, in no city is more being done to aid the
poor than i'm Chicago. allow shall We cl-
evatc the masses" seems to be the great
question of the day. not only in religious
but in business and social circles. At the
great Congregational mass meeting held in
the Auditorium last Thursday night this
was the underlying thought in two of the
three addresses of the evening one of them
by President Gates of Amherst. Then,
too, the Sunset club, comprising nearly Il
thousand of the prominent business and
professional men of the city had a ladies
long since, and the same subject was ably
handled by the eloquent Jewish rabbi, DR.
Hirsch Miss Adams Of the Hull House
settlement, Lady Somerset, and others.
Right here must say just word about
I lady Somerset. who is taking a few weeks
! course at Mr. Moody's Bible institute. She
has not come to America for pleasure, and
so-called society has seen little of her {;
nor has she addressed many public gather
| ings; but wherever there is a good cause
needing her ald' she Is ever ready TO re-
spond' as witness the TWO days spent IN
| st. Paul and Minneapolis where she spoke
IN behalt ol a. t. Nooliey hesl lslahd
home for men trying to overcome the drink
| habit In pprsOnal aDpparanCp this noble
Ehgnsh"olhah Is very attractive her man
ner is CORDIAL, ana she speaks win sim
pllclty ana earhes'hess' grace OF uic'loh'
a manifest depth OF personal experience
ana CHRISTIAN wisdom possible only 10
one VINO KNOWS wei the 1auItS ana lolllesr
the SINS ana sorrows, OF those III the hlgh-
est social circles, as wei as those III all the
gradatlons down to the depths OF Darkest
England would there were more Ike
her!
But people are not merely talking; they
are doing. over on the West side in the
midst OF dense foreign population, Il
evanston Hall, which promises som'
day to be as widely known as ITS London
prototype, loyhbee. II Is under the charge
OF MeSSrA. ltublln ana llsdel, GRADUATES
OF the Northwestern university at Evanston
name dear to all W. I. L. |. women a
the nome OF MISS FRANCES NlIlaruG ana th'
movement Is backed by an incorporated
company oil Well-khoWh bankers ana puSl
ness men. The settlement Is III the I6tl
ward, where III one ana ohe-hith square
.l...l 4.
miles OF space are crowded '"'W" people
only 10 per cent OF whom are American
born. They include Scandlnaylans, Ger
mans Poles and Bohemlans, and 1t is SAT-
that there are 23Oo children attending 10
llsh parochlaI schools, in which English |
not taught, and the school census of Is"
) showed that there We're more persons II
That ward, between the ages OF II and Il
VINO could neither read nor write English
IMAM III all the elShI wards comprising III
North side The death rate Is also yer
great being III 1870 2l'9 per cent AS
, means OF making theSe people good an
= useful American citizens, Mr.. Ieublln an
MI ana Mrs. llsdel have come to liV
among them and bring to their very door
/ lectures concerts debating societies. libra
ry, reading rooms and gymnasium; ais
7 classes Tor instruction IN penmanshlI
bookkeeping snort hahd' American hist'
: ry, drawing, slhglng-ln snort, almost an
SUBJECT primary or advanced VIII d
2 taught 10 keep up the interest there WI
haA u M ah a 800 Of pvotc fAp 10,