The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-18
IN Chicago Aftsr the Fair.

/ N C41CagO AFTER the + air.
/ Chicago has had her dance; she is now
paying the fiddler. The reflex action
| after the removal Of the strain Of the
/ great fair affects almost everything.
I Trade has dropped of to a remarkable ex-
tent. Nobody. it is said, is TO be found
dealing in grain and other produce, ex-
cept the professional traders The thea
tiers are losing money. Real estate in the
vicinity of jackson park has decreased so
per cent. in value in six months, and there
are 10000 unemployed persons in the city,
10000 of whom are starving.
This army Of unemployed. whose CON
dition can hardly be improved during the
winter, is made up of men and women
from the four quarters Of the
globe, who were drawn to Chicago
by the worlds fair. Many of them
are frst-class mechanics, and among
them are hundreds Of men whose
skill helped raise the beautiful White
City upon what was an area of swamp
mud. When the fair buildings We're com
pletcd in June, thousands of workingmen
were left without employment, and with
little or no money. They waited in the
city until the clasing of the fair in the
hope Of getting work at tearing the build
ings down. But by that time the num-
Der Of unemployed had been doubled by
the drift of the unemployed II other cities
to the great fair, hence, only a small por-
ti0nof the number out Of work could be
given employment at dcmolishing the
buildings.
Ten thousand Of the unemployed as
stated above, are said TO be starving. They
are sleeping in the halls, alleyways, eel
lars, empty boxes, and wherever they
may, ana securing a bite of food when
ever they can. Mr.. ". T. Stead, the Lon
don editor, says their condition is worse
than anything he ever saw in
London, Paris. OrSt. Petersburg. in which
cities he has investigated the slums and
the condition Of the poor. A relief move
ment for the benefit Of these people has
been started by Mr.. Stead and the vari-
Gus ministers, and Joseph jefferson and
Stuart Robson have given theatrical per-
formances for their benefit. But, despite
these efforts, there will be much suffer
ing.
Along with the unemployed there are
thousands of criminals - professional
thieves and thugs, as well as men made
thieves by stress Of circumstance. Hun
dreds of burglaries have occurred re-
Gently. An average of fifteen highway
robberies have been reported every night
for month, and Notwithstanding the
mayors recent order putting the city I'M
der martial law from to a. NJ every
day. the police are unable to check the
epidemic of crime Ten murders were
committed in one week during Novem Der,
and in seven of them robbery was the
motive.
Among those who were left stranded in
Chicago at the close of the fair was a
large number Of foreigners from the
Midway Plaisance - Syrians, Turks,
Arabs, Hindoos, Persians and the Esqui-
maux. The Asiatics among these have
instituted an oriental system of mendi-
cancy. and the Esquimaux are trying to
draw crowds as museum freaks.
It was to be expected that there would
be considerable reaction after the fair
but it was not foreseen that it would in
yolye so much. And the disagreeable
certainty is forcing itself upon Chicagoans
that the effect viii be felt for a year or
more. The fair, therefore, was not an
unqualified success, from the Chicago
standpoint