The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-15
CHICAGO Is LEVEL.
Monotonous TO People from
Hiliy Countries.
no INoLMEs OF LOFTY HEIGHTS.

One Reason Why the Ferris Wheel Is So
Popular to Visitors to the Worlds Co
lumbar Exi,osi.:cn-Go;ng to the Fair
by the Water Route and What Is TO DC
Seen.
WORLDS FAIR, Aug. IL. = Special -
A man who yTas reared in the rolling and
tin1bered regions OF Indiana, who passed
many years Of MS active life in the Rocky
mountains and then located in New York.
feels large pain when he first has to stay
month il Chicago Il IS SO very level, SO
very uniform. so very, very monotonous.
There is no current Ia the river and far sc
the eye can notice no break IN the level
There are no inciines for the cars as in
Cincinnati aid Roboken, there are no sub
lime heights as in Kansas City and Wee-
hawken, no extaa horses are attached to
the cars anywhere. the lake is just now
painfully placid and there mas not so lar
in the expositiou's history been even big
thunder storm.
There is place away out on the prairie
miles away from the city but still SUI
DQIO Win iOlS CT S~oo CSSf-NAlIi IICy
call Columbia Heights or simply The
Height, and I vas 50 hungry for awhile
that l rode out there the other day.
Standing ON 8 prairie where, as it seemed
to me, even the bulb in a spirit level would
show no variation, 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. regret to add, however, that
the resulting sensations were very IN
pleasant to ne and l find many who say
the same. Time was when l rode a sure
footed mule along the dizzy heights of
Utah, Colorado and Arizona, and gazed
down over precipice many q 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 palpitat-
ing heart warns me not to get highly
machinery, anyhow.
But the view is wonderful and there is
no danger, for one takes his seat in 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
great height. There Is, however, a pain
full fiuttering OF head and heart which do
not care to feel again. First one gets
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. / know not how far away
Far below the streets and squares of South
Chicago show like a checkerboard, but
towards the 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 brook which the coIa-
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" ] 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 bank OF
SNOW. Well, even from the top of the