Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21

| Earring sections, are the clatter of room keys
pattering on the marble counter in the dis
tance and the bawling of the baggage man
and the train anupciator and ''front" and
squeak Of moving chairs and the nervous
coming and going of many feet and slam
ming and banging of doors
A Chicago hotel 10 o'clock picture.
| Points About the Hotels.
If owned the West Hotel at Minneapo.
lis ten minutes I would throw ont sickly-
looking tree that is suspended between the
heavens and the earth in the center of the
| magnificent rotunda, and discharge colored
waters who chew tobacco while serving
meals. Perhaps would be considered too
! particular for that climate. And if ran
the Clifton House in Chicago ten minutes 1
would raise the salary of the barkeeper who
wags his ears A barkeeper who can wag
his ears backward and forward as he shakes
the festive punch is jewel without price.
He draws customers and makes those GUS
toners thirsty. No man can tell long
story with barkeeper quietly swapping his
! left ear at him.
The typical Chicago man can be met on
every corner You could not avoid him if
| you tried. / really do not believe you will
| find his counterpart on the face of the globe
| His overmastering instinct is to pump in
! formation into you at every point of con-
tact 1t doesn't matter that you are total
stranger to him and have mind possibly
bent on something else stopped msn in
a thronged street in a raw wind from the
lake embellished with fine cutting snow,
and inquired where took the cars for the
Worlds Fair Grounds. Instead of answer
| ing me directly he tilted up his soft hat and
said: "Have you got pass?" told him
l had. though 1 was somewhat taken aback
| L ,z,,& har -ao
going to ask me to let him see it, when his
companion, smoothing out a snuf-colored
goatee, observed: "Greatest thing the
world ever saw-3O acres of floor in one
building"
The Ruling Passion in Chicago.
1 stopped in a beer place for glass, and
the barkeeper eyed me for moment and
asked me if had been in the "Rookery." 1
told him L had - that it was great
building.
"Chicago has the finest buildings in the
world" said he, turning to another, Gus
toner. The latter casually remarked for
my hearing: "Chicago is the finest city in
the world"
got away When got back went up
to the Commerce building to get paper
executed before a notary. He handed me
pamphlet on real estate and pulled on me a
prospectus of new building ASSOCIATION.
Population increased here 10S per cent
in ten years-greatest growth in the world,
said he. To which 1 replied that the only
interest had in Chicago real estate was to
get it off my hands and fee;.
''More buildings put up in Chicago in ten
years than any other city in the world. In
creased in ten years CSC per cent-real
estate"
But fed precipitately. L spoke COM
plimentary of big drygoods house to
lady on State street L happened to have
known long time ago. Immediately the
answer came:
Chicago has the finest retail drygoods
houses in the world. New York isn't in
itr'
Another newspaper man asked me where
was stopping, and told him.
Fair hotel-Chicago has the greatest
hotels in the world" said he.
Beats New York for Boosting
Twas on a cable car, going out to see a
friend, and total stranger next to me ad-
dressed me proudly:
"Great things, these cable roads-Chicago
has the finest street car system in the
world
''You bet she has" put in the man on the
other side of me. And they were so pleased
with each other that they shook hands
across nv lap. Then they began to tell
each other what great city Chicago is.
Coming down the elevator in the Rand &
McNally building a couple of men were
talking French. When they got out, one
of the passengers turned to me and said,
confidentially: "Great, isn't it?,'
whats great?" said ! ). "the building?"
seYes-but the people. Chicago is the only
cosmopolitan city in the world"
And thus, on every hand, with whomso-
ever you talk-or don't talk. 1t is all the
same-Chicago is the greatest, finest, most
superlatively magnificent, in whole and in
detail, and every inhabitant thereof is
special committee of one, chairman, secre-
tary and executive board to impress these
things on the strangers mind.
Robberfes in Broad Daylight.
There are now more robberies committed
in the open streets of Chicago in a single
day than are committed in New York in a
week. Twenty-Five cases of highway rob-
berry were reported one day last week at a
single police station. The unreported may
have been larger. This is largely due to
the extraordinary influx of population
owing to the Worlds Fair. The city is full
of men who probably came here for work
and have turned thieves and robbers through
desperation. The streets are full of loafers
and vagabonds of every description and
every degree of rascality. No mans purse
is safe and no woman can 60 abroad at
night unprotected. Men whose business
takes them out at night go armed.
But many of the most astonishing cases
that ever occurred in q civilized community
have been in broad daylight upon open and
unfrequented thoroughfares. The worst of
it is, the robbers are rarely caught. The
police force of Chicago, from being once
one of the best, is now one of the poorest in
the world. The disgraceful facts are now
everywhere discussed but the people are
utterly demoralized All sorts of crime
are literally rampant. For a great city
inviting the attention just now of the civil
lied world Chicago is conspicuous and
shining disgrace to all Americans.
Another Kind of Robbery.
The pretty typewriter at the Palmer has
a sweet temper that is liable to spoil "a
man from Omaha had me do a 50-cent lob
for him." she said "He was a very pleas
ant man and had two daughters about half
grown, whom he introduced. Having some
business around town, he asked me one
morning if 1 would be kind enough to look
after them. He said they were young and
innocent, and he was afraid they couldn't
take care of themselves As they were
pleasant, nice girls, I didn't object. It
finally came my dinner hour, and said to
them that I lived at the cafe, and they said
they would dine with me, and papa would
square it. We went-we dined Those
girls had toast on quail, porter house steak
and ice cream and cake and soup and pie
and everything right and left. / never saw
such appetites. The bill nearly paralyzed
met was 81 65. I'm dreaming of that
bill now every night. Settle? No; never
saw them again. Well-to-do people too.
Next time any slick old man leaves his