Morning journal and courier., 1893-06-17
SOME NOTES OF CHICAGO.

It's Wonderful Growth and the Cos- mopolisan Character Of Its People Gonanerce, Products ana Trade- How 1t Impresses g ssCourier,, Corr respondent-A Chat About the . worlds Fair and Niagara Falls.
 CHICAGO, June 14.-Many readers of the COURIER have visited Chicago, but the greater number have not. Hundreds will undoubtedly see 1t for the first time this year when they go to see the "greatest show on earth.n To all some brief items concerning this great inland city may not prove uninteresting.
 The growth of it's population has been marvellous. It's present resident inhabi- tants are estimated at 1, ,550, 900. Germans lead among the foreign born; the Irish come next, and are followed by the Scan- dinayians, Bohemians and Poles., Every nationality>en earth is represented, and probably one-third of the population is of foreign birth and nearly two-thirds are of direct foreign origin. In 1860 the entire population of the state was only about 150, 900 more than the present population of It's chief city.
 In 1885 Chicago had an area of 2.55 square miles, and at present the area, is 182 square miles. On Lake Michigan the city has frontage of 22 miles, and there is river frontage of 5S miles, 22a miles of which are navigable. The greatest length is 24 miles, and it's breadth 10a miles. The longest thoroughfsre is State street, and its length is IS miles. just the distance between New Haven and Meriden. S;,oa {a hat {ba 1alr covered the entire surface of the ciry. It Is claimed by a leading engineer that the city is built on @ crust thirty feet tAick, and that the weight of the massive struot- ures will some time break through this crust; but the theory is not generally be. Heved Most of the sewage flows into the Chicago river and thence Ey canal to the Illinois river, and then into the great Mis- eissippi The natural outlet, however, Is by the St. Lawrence.
 The arrivals and clearances of vessels at the harbor of Chicago exceed those of New | York by fully 90 per cent. and are nearly 1 as many as those of New York, Baltimore l and Boston combined. Chicago has fully 25 per cent of the entire lake carrying 1 trade. The whole country, north, south. east and west, seeks Chicago az market, | and in return draws supplies of all kinds 1 The present estimated value of products if l S35O, GOO ,000 per annum. The city is To- | csted about 800 feet higher than New Hs l ven.
 l The people of Chicago use 100, 900 gal Ions of milk daily, much of which ii brought on fast trains from Wisconsin | The lumber business monopoliz ss about ter ! miles of the water frontage.
 The town was settled in 1779 by fugi tive slave named Point De Sable. Flo, many years it was known as Chicago port age, and the original name was Chioagow French Canadian fur traders were the frs residents. In 1909 Fort Dearborn wa built and it was destroyed during the wa of 1872 by the Indians and rebuilt in 1914 Illinois was admitted into the Union il 1918 and Chicago was incorporated in 1887 people who visit Chicago this year, vii devote nearly all of their time to the ex hibition. Some will go for curiosity an, l others as an educational medium. Such great object lesson certainly was neye presented before, and Is not likely to b again for generations. And if, after seein
 the great white city to the hearts content
 one has left few days of his vacation, h
 should behold some of the objects of inter
 est in this great city. It is indeed
 wonderful oity and representative as pc,
 haps no other city is, of the thrift an
 enterprise of the citizens of this great cour
 try.
 else you miss, if you do you will regret
 az long as you live. And if you have
 few days more to spare, take at least
 birds eye glimpse of Chicago
 Either going out or returning the traN
 eler should stop off 8 few hours at Nisgar
 Falls. The beauty and grandeur of th
 great miracle of nature grows upon one, D
 matter if he has bsheld 1t score of time 1 and those who have not seen it certain1
 cannot afford to mies it. At Buffalo en
 bark on one of the elegant trains of th
 Michigan Central railroad. This is calle
 the Niagara Falls route, becauss~it is th
 only railroad running directly by and i fuli view of the falls, and stops its trair
 at Falls View station, directly above tt brink of the Horseshoe falls, from whic point all parts of the Falls, the green i Hands in the river, the raging rapids abo,
 and the boiling chssm below, are in flu view. Nomore comprehensive view of tl great cataract is to bs had, yet the travel.
 who possesses any love for or sppreoiatio , of the beauties of nature should be by | means content with the single view. Pa
 sengers can stop over at Niagara Fal
 without extra charge, and 8 few hours he,
 will tend to rest and invigorate the min for the wonderful things he is to see
 Jackson park.
 Re embarking on one of the elega1
 Michigan Central trains, equipped wit , fine coaches, sleeping, parlor and dinin
 cars and operated with great vigilance an painstaking care for the safety and con
 fort of passengers, ,one is whirled at rspi
 pace through beautiful country toward
 Chicago and the great white city, with ii
 offerings from the four quarters of th
 earth for the delectation and education c
 the people,
 In another letter we will give some note
 of travel and a peep at the big show
 Meanwhile we would urge all who hay
 not seen the exhibition to do so Do no
 miss this great event in your life, if 70
 can help it. And go early and avoid th
 great crowds that will assemble in the lat
 summer and fall. ELM CITY.