The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-06-06
ROMANCE OF CHICAGO.
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argue that the tall buildings darken
the streets and make the lower
stories of opposite houses like so
many cellars or damp and dark base
ments. Other reasons are that the
great number of tall and splendid
Office houses has deprecated the
value of the humber property in
their neighborhoods. -Four and five
story houses are no longer attrac-
tive, because their owners cannot
afford the conveniences that apper-
tain to the larger edifces, where
light and heat is provided free, where
fireproof safes are fixed for every
tenant, where hosts of servants, bar
Der shops, restaurants, cigar and
news stands, elevators and numer-
Gus other conveniences are regarded
as matters of course.
A oH1oAaoAN ARGUES DIFFERENTLY.
He can perceive no reason why the
square half mile which comprises
the entire business heart of the
town, should rot all soon be covered
with Handicapped towers. "There
will be need of them," he says, "and
the money to defray the cost of
them will accompany the demand"
The clogging of the streets with
people, as streets we're never clogged
before, is the only difficulty he per-
ceives in the solution of the pro-
blem. Only small section of the
city is here referred to; the whole
city comprises an area of 1919 square
miles. Chicago expects to become
the largest city in America in the
course of fifty years-larger than
the consolidated cities that may
form New York at that time.
A consideration of the causes that
have made Chicago what she is to-
day and full of the expectancy of
future greatness reveals the fact
that she seems always to have been,
as now, city of young men. A
Chicagoan accounts for the low
death rate by the assertion that even
its leading men are
NOT YET OLD ENOUGH
to die. In the early days, after the
close of the war, the youthfulness
of the leading business men was the
most surprising feature. Marshall
Field, Potter Palmer, and the rest,
at the head of very large mercantile
houses, were young follows. Men
under thirty we're leading in all
branches of commerce and industry
and much the same thing obtains
to-day.
Then every individual or section
of Chicago business men is familiar
with the whole country; with the
differing districts of the entire west
north and south; with their crops
financial status, industries, and
means of Recommendation. Their
business field is the world; they talk
not of one section only or of Europe
but discuss the affairs of the entire
universe. The figures with which
they deal reveal how vast and
wealthy a region acknowledges Chi,
cago as it's market and its financial
and trading centre.
THE RAILWAYS
by which Chicago is riveted to the
midland, the southern and the west.
ern country enter the city by thirty
five tracks. Twenty-Five of these
are great companies. and at short
distance sub-radials made by other
railways raise the number to fifty
roads and serve 100000 persons
A vast population is thus easily con
nected with common centre, tc
which products may be brought, ano
from which everything may be
economically distributed. The rapid
increase in wealth of both the city
and the tributary region is due tt
the fact that every year both pro
duce more, and have more to sci
and less to buy. Not long ago the
rule was that stream of goods rar
eastward over the Alleghanies, anC
another stream of supplies came
back, SO that the West had little
gain to show. But now the back
setting current is stream of money
returned for the products the Wes
has distributed. The West is nov
selling to the East and to Europe
and getting money in return, be
cause it is manufacturing for itsel
as we'll as tilling the soil and mining
for the rest of the world. It now
therefore, earns money, instead O
continuing to toll merely to Obtain
from the East the necessaries of life
This is the major reason of Chicago
popularity. For years, in compan,
with the entire Western country
she has been making money only
TO PAY DEBTS WITH.
That, they say, is why Chicago
men have only talked business; VIII,
she has had no leisure class, or reser
voir of home capital seeking invest
ment. These conditions havin.
changed-now that she is producin,
more and buying less-the rest will
change also.
Chicago has become the thirt
manufacturing city in the union
and she is drawing manufacturer
: away from the east faster every day
The Troy stove-making establish
| ment, the Massachusetts shoe-fac
tory and many other great estat
lishments have gone there an
many more must follow, becaus
Chicago is not only the centre c
the midland region in respect of tn
distribution of made-up wares, bu
also for the concentration of RAJ