The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-12-05
Terror In Chicago.


The city OF Chicago Is an unusually sweet
plnce Of residence at present In making
that assertion we do not consider the I'M
paved and unceaned Streets against which
mass meetings are vainly crying out. or
fuliginous air. or n water supply swamped
with sewage. or the absence Of q proper
system of drainage. or the rich possibili.
ties OF disease and discomfort which these
things contain. One has no right to expect
too much OF an ambitious but raw COM
munity expanding sprawl!ngly beyond its
needs. and its confidence. or overconfi-
dence. in the future. willing to put up with
much inconvenience in the present. Nor
will the visitors to the Chicago Fair be too
hard to please. They know something by
common report about the conditions that
prevail in Chicago. They are aware that
they go to Chicago to benefit Chicago. that
they needn't go there unless they choose.
and that neither Utopia nor Araby the BEST
is situated in Cook county They will not
60 there for their health or their wealth.
and they are disposed to regard the town
with tho amused federation one feels for
hulking hobbledchoy who is doing his best
to be urbane. and for the street fakir who
trumpets his poor wares SO loudly and asks
so much for them.
But even to ones acquiescence in Chicago
there is limit. You may be willing to
take your chances OF being killed at grade
crossing and Of getting aphasia in your
bronchial tubes through that malign air
which the Chicago physicians say is so rich
in grip and of Introducing the bacilli Of
moro diseases than you know into your
corpus Travellers must not be choosers
nor visitors too dainty. But there is line
to be drawn. Because the Chicago cabman
overchargcs you is no argument to make
you satisfied with being pilfered as to your
pockets by Il footpad. Because Chicago by
the necessities OF the case will rid you OF
your money is no consolation to you. when
her cutpurses and knights OF the road fall
upon you with force and arms.
Now Chicago ut present is absolutely
powerless to prevent highway robberies
aud assaults by footpads. The confessions
OF Chicago newspapers. speaking in sorrow
rather than in anger. admit this. They
admit the existence in their city OF a vast
quantity Of robbery. Tho street cars. the
stores. the streets are infested with thieves
and pickpockets. Armed highwaymen rob
on the highways in broad daylight. Here is
record OF three days compiled by our
esteemed contemporary. the Ners Record:
"wrnSrsp.v Nov .3--Il. G. TooNss of 400 West
Randolph street snndbngsed and robbed of $50 In q
Polk street si"on GEOKGE liASsoSs house. 4Dl West
Monroe street. robbed by burglar. who chased
and fred upon BY oic-r RILEY; the burglar escaped
josrrH NASnLgr robbed By masked horsemau on
sheridan drv" Louis itorsrR. si4 Clifton av.nu o
robbed by II masked horNeman on RAcino avenue.
jaws " pn!Lr> Of Rose I'LL Cemetery held up by an
armed h"rscnan on IIighbrdge avenue PrrrK OLSON
of Lincoln avenue robbed BY tho same horseman on
North Clark street. near the city limits j. T. Woop of
Twin Bnhs. Wis, drugged and robbed OF money and
watch at ~ Custom House pace. d. =. GEApmrI OF
34"s IisStcd street held up and robbed OF 500 At
Archer avenue AMI lla!steI street.
"SuSpAr. Nov. 27.-CAREiE WALLER Of ~ Tell place
robbie 0f $50 by pckpocSets at the corner of Clark
and Monroe streets. l. l.. kiSSARD OF Baltimore swim.
died out of $50 by she'll workers the lake front
MARTIN wriE and MARY FAxLrr Of the WEIR gang steal
800 worth OF goods from H. GoLpsrrs. 1907 Milwaukee
avenue, and captured joins CAMrsELLs saoon oO2
Armour avenue enteredby three masked M on who rob
the iii and ire three shots Rt JoHS KANE innicting
mortal wounds. JAMES H. yAnkH'S saloon, 800 Thirty
ninth street. entered by three armed men In masks
who rob the TIL and escape Z. A. BADln of Berwyi,
robbed VI his watch by an armed horseman on Ogden
ayenuo FgED SELLERS and fRrD CEowE OF Riverside
robbed Oh Ogden avenue by the same hOrsr;nan. JOy
REFrE. policeman. and WILLIAM Rras, coal dealer.
both OF Lyons robbed of revolver and money OH the
Lagrange road by the same man,
"MoSDAr. Nov. 2S.-MAN EIsExErRG hold n? By three
masked robbers in his shoe store at cuS state street.
lie had fight with them. and GEoRfs WALTER, Is ar
rested. the other two escaping Mrs. CATHERINE QUAY
LEYs saloon. $40 Auburn avenue entered at ~ T. NJ
by three mash who draw revolvers and rob tho
cash drawer. NJ. C. FgrLErs saloon at 3IaD En- erali
avenue robbed by the same three men, all masked and
armed SY FIsmERs house at 20 frank street entered
and thieves captured with jewery IN their possession
GEORGE ScoRLSGs feed s:0re at Seventy nth street
and Eastern Illinois tracks entered by sneak thieves
early in the evening and sos from tho safe A.
FELsESsTElss store. 1928 ssted street. broken into
and 500 worth of merchandise taken"
Tho police seem to BIO useless. The citi-
zens are frightened. The pistol trade -four
ishes. The trouble has been going on for
two months. but is especially lively now
The Chicago Neps Record YEARLY sums up
the situation:
1t is not nice thing to say. but things have come
to this pass that no man can walk straight mile on
Chcago street AT night and be he will arrive
NJ his destination with his watch und pocgetbook.
Tho knowledge Of these facts is going Chicago
any good abroad. hut It Is far better that they be
known now anu corrected than that they bs hidden