Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-08-18
CHICAGO is LEVEL.
Monotonous to People from
Hilly Countries.
NO IN0LINEs OR LOFTY HEIGHTS,

Popular to Visitors to the Worlds Co
by the Water Route and What Is To lie
Seen.
WORLDS FAIR, Aug, IL. - Especial. -
y man who was reared in the rolling and
timbered regions of Indiana, who passed
many years of his active life in the Rocky
mountains and then located in New York,
feels a large pain when he first has to stay
month in Chicago. 1t is so very level, SD
very uniform, so very, very monotonous.
There is no current in the river and far rs
the eye can notice no break in the level.
There are no tnclines for the cars as in
Cincinnati and Hoboken, there are no sub
lime heights rs in Kansas City and Wee.
hawkeu, no eXtaa horses are attached to
the cars anywhere. the lake is just now
painfully placid and there has not so far
i'll the eNposition's history been even Il big
tEInder storm.
There is a place away out or the prairie
miles away from the city but still u
burb with lots at 500 each-which they
call Columbia Heights or simply The
Height, and l was so hungry for awhile
that l rode out there the other day.
Standing on a prairie where, rs it seemed
to me, even the bulb in a spirit level would
show no variation, l asked the agent.
"Where is the Height"
"Why, stranger" said he, "you're right
on it! This station is thirty-eight feet
above Madison street."
May be so. But what is thirty-eight
feet in thirteen miles? One of the Wee.
hawken hills would be worth $1,000 a
square yard in the near vicinity of Chi,
cago. And this must be the reason why
the Ferris wheel is so popular among Wis.
itors from the east. They long to get up
somewhere and that raises them $50 feet
anyhow. l regret to add, however, that
the resulting sensations were very I'm.
pleasant to me and l find many who say
the same. Time wa when I rode a sure
footed mule along the dizzy heights Of
Utah, Colorado and Arizona, and gazed
down over a precipice many a time to see
the running water look like solid rock or
snow, it was SO far below me. But that
was many years ago and now a palpitat-
Ing heart warns me not to get highly
machinery, anyhow.
But the view is wonderful and there is
no danger, for n takes his seat in a big
box, or small cabin rather, and is locked
in. You can't fall out and you can't go
wild and jump out as people have been
known to do when suddenly raised to a
great height. There is, however, a pain
full futtering of head and heart which 1 do
not care to feel again. First one gets q
birds-eye view of the plaisance, in which
the wheel is located. Next of all Jackson
park and vicinity, then of Chicago and
finally the eye sweeps over a vast land
and-water scope bounded only by the EN-
closing sky. l know not how far away,
Far below the streets and squares of South
Chicago show like a ch~eckerboard, bu.
towards che north the angle is too acute
and all is confused, the city fades away
into the prairie like a blurred picture and
even the dirty river loses its distinctive
color.
Somewhere in the book of Job the pa
triarch compares his unreliable brethren
to the waters of a brook which the COM
panies (%caravans) of Sheba and Tunan see
from the mountain tops, (Which are
black by reason of the ice and wherein the
snow is hid" I have often noticed that
from the mountain tops ice seen far below
looks black, running water appears per-
fectly still and dark and the white foam
of a cataract looks exactly like a bank OF
snow. Well, even from the top of the