The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-09-20

with an iron railing. AT this tree ana
towards the fort, the monument mark
ing the site of the latter, occurred the
dreadful massacre. One representation
on the monument is that Of an Indian
shielding a woman and her babe from
the tomahawk-sn occurrence in that
event of history.
In lodging in the city the visitor has
the opportunity Of seeing more of Chi
cago than by staying near the Exposi-
ton grounds. The trip to the fair can
be made very quickly by fodr different
routes, namely, the Illinois Central,
along the lake front; by the boats; by
the elevated cars; by the cable cars.
The car lines seem to be making more
money than anything else in Chicago.
Their combined capacity is 10000 pas
sengers an hour. The quarter Of mil
lion people at the Exposition on Illi-
nois day were handled with ease and
safety.
Besides the immense number of peo-
pie daily carried to the Fair, the cable
cars were crowded with country folk
riding all day long up State street, and
transferring at 35th, and back the same
way. A nickel will pay for twenty
five miles transportation on the street
cars, and you can ride on horse cars,
electric cars and cable cars. In going to
LINCOLN PARK,
the cable cars run under Chicago river
because they can't 60 over it. I would
rather go under it than through it, and
then you would scarcely escape con-
tamination. It is the filthest, most
sluggish stream I ever saw or heard of.
I saw some big big steamboats, sail out
on Lake Michigan from this river, and
the specific gravity of the stream must
be increased by its filth, for the boats
looked too big for the volume Of water
in its channel. At the next Worlds
Fair, Chicago could make sensation Of
this fluid stagnation by cutting it out
of the river with an axe and exhibit
ting it in barbed wire pens. It would
not run away. Too solid But before
that time comes around, the sewerage
of the city will be conveyed thirty
miles from the city, on the west, to g
river by a canal upon which millions
of dollars are now being spent.
If you must take look at Chicago
river, do so before you visit Lincoln
Park. In such beautiful place, ad-
miring the work of nature and the
art of man, you will forget all about
the river. 1t is very large park, con-
tanning $50 acres. In its geological Sec
tion is to be seen a larger collection of
animals, BIRDS and reptiles than the
celebrated geological gardens in Gin
,cinnati or Central Park. I had no
guide. I did not know at first it was a
park. I attended church in that part
Of the city, and just thought I would
take rest on the grass under the trees
just like l saw thousands Of folks do
ing-although had no beer to drink
nor lunch to eat.
There in flowers, though they toiled
not like the lilies of Solomon, in
their varigated colors on all sides,
you could read "Lincoln Park" The
waters of Lake Michigan as they are
seen from the eastern side of the park
form vista of blush, velvety green,
stretching out on a gentle upward
slope. The lake wherever seen looks
higher than the city, and scientists
declare that it is gradually rising every
year.
Thousands Of people spend the
Sabbath in the park. 1t is difficult
to realize when Sunday comes. I rode
six miles to get that reserved seat" on
Sunday in Grace Lutheran church on
Belden avenue, in which vicinity the
serenity of the Sabbath more abounded
than on Wabash avenue, Monroe, State
and North Clark streets I traversed in
going to church. The saloons, shops,
and streets vendors were doing a big
business, judging by the immense,
surging crowds of people.
By luck or accident, four Of our
party lost our way and tramped
through a portion of South Park next
day on our way to the Exposition.
We were repaid for the trip when
some marvellous designs in living,
blooming flowers burst upon our dis
gruntled thoughts. Three pieces were
remarkable for their arrangement,
namely, Monday, August 2l"-calen-
dar of the day in twenty inch letters;
large globe with map of. the world
very plainly outlined; Gates Ajar-
most beautiful of the three. The first
was set in bas relief on the sloping
lawn; the second elevated on pedes-
tai of flowers; and the third suggests
it's own arrangements to the most cas-.
ual reader.
There are some buildings in Chicago
from the top Of which the lake recedes.
The
CHIEF SKY SCRAPER
is the Masonic Temple, twenty stories
high, and its observatory making
twenty-oue. The elevator shoots up
past the twenty floors, where Offices
are leased for various occupations, and
stairway escends to the observatory.
From this height the large buildings
six, eight, ten stories-all around look
like woodsheds. At least that is what
a Chicagoan told me the Auditorium
so appeard beside the Masonic TEN
ple. The Auditorium and its towel
efor;ac The Masonic