The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-06-24
Especial chicago Correspondence.l

of bowling, hostile Indians. Fears
were entertained for the safety of
visitors and exhibits that might be at
Chicago in 1898. When it was reported
that Buffalo Bill was ordered to the
front the dispatch in European papers
took the form that ''Col. Cody, the
author of the Buffalo Bill" had been
ordered to Chicago in order to be near
the seat of the Indian war with party
of scouts. Don't Taught These are
sober facts.
Perhaps the greatest wonder in con-
nection with the worlds fair is the
change of sentiment, the complete rev.
olution of ideas in regard to this west
ern country. Europeans begin to I'M
derstand that within generation there
has developed here an empire in extent
more vast than the great empires of
history. in wealth unmatched in the
past. Foreigners accept the statement
now without their former incredulous
smile. They actually believe what is
told them about this country. They no
longer shrug their shoulders and say:
yankee humbug!'' 1t is no wonder
cult even for many natives of the United
States to comprehend the changes
wrought in lifetime in the western
part of the republic.
These reflections were caused by
meeting man just over from Europe.
| He has but one word for all he sees
| here: Colossal" He applies it to the
good and the bad alike. to the evidences
of the highest civilization and the rem
nants of barbarism which he finds
alongside of them and which time alore
can wipe out entirely.
took him out on the new elevated
railroad, which has been running a
little while. He did not expect such a
thing in a city fifty years of age. The
elevated road, known as the "Alley l.,
is the latest acquisition of Chicago.
The promoters of it protited by the eX-
perience of other cities. They could not
build road over the housetops as they
did in London. They did not dare raise
the opposition that would be caused by
occupying a street. They built their
road over an alley running from the
! center of the city between State and
| Wabash avenue south to the old city
limits. They got the alley from the
city and bought what property was nee
essary outright. The structure of the
road. although as graceful as could be,
| is necessarily unsightly, but is hidden
away between houses except at the
! street crossings.
The people living along the line of
the road have not yet become used to it.
| Their kitchens, bedrooms, nurseries
| and backwards front on the road most
| ly. One can see the greatest assert
ment of washing, tin cans, dogs. cats
and babies on a trip down the IL" road.
| After the people shall have become
used to it they may shut in little more
! of their privacy. The horses in the
streets are not yet used to it either.
| Horses are not fond of locomotive en-
gines at best; they look upon them as
competitors in business. But when
these engines come snorting along over
head it throws many horses entirely of
their balance. There have been plenty
of runaways and great CONSERVATION
generally in the equine world. But, like
workmen who object to labor-saving
machinery, they will get used to them
finally.
There are no ticket collectors on the
elevated road. The convenience is not
appreciated by some people who make
study of looking unconcerned when
the conductor comes by and calls for
! fares.
You enter the depot at the street
level. buy your ticket, and before pass
ing upstairs, deposit it in glass vessel
like the hopper that feeds steam en-
! CINE, then go upstairs and wait on the
platform. which is elevated above the
tracks SO that one walks right on the
car without climbing any steps.
The Il" road is to be extended &c
Jackson park before the worlds fair
opens. 1t is trying to acquire property
for terminal facilities down town. Al
present it runs to Congress street, but
will eventually reach Van Buren,. Il
will still further tend to draw business
to the eastern section of the city near
the Auditorium, which seems to be de-
velopipg more and more into business
district. Some one has the assurance
!
south of Peck court.
Over in Norway in a town called
Goekstad, harbor opening on the
Skager Rack. they are building q boat fol-
the worlds fair. Some thirty years
ago there were found in that neighbor-
hood the remains of an old viking ship
dragon so-called, with long archinG
bows ending in dragon head. The
outlines of the boat and its construc
ton remained clearly discernible
1t was in such boats open, without {
deck. with only i square sail that could
not be used except when the wind wa:
fair, that the old Norsemen ventured out
ON the ocean to Greenland and thence
to the American coast Their descend
ants arc now planning to build {
boat IN the exact likeness of thi:
old ship and To sail her to Chicago
They will deck her, of course, and ust
modern rigging and sails. but aftel
reaching Chicago strip her of every
thing modern and present the true
form of the old dragon" A crew o.
twelve men will sail across No Amer
lean newspaper correspondent has ye'
applied for pass.
Chicago is nothing if not unique
Among the curious things it has beer
enjoying this spring is beer war. L